Olivia Williams

Olivia Williams

1968-07-26
Camden Town, London, England, UK

Biography

Olivia Haigh Williams (born July 26, 1968) is a British actress who has appeared in British and American films and television. Williams studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film Emma (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel. She made her film debut in 1997's The Postman, followed by Rushmore (1998) and The Sixth Sense (1999). Williams also acted in the British films Lucky Break (2001), The Heart of Me (2002) and An Education (2009). She continued acting in films such as The Ghost Writer (2010), Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Maps to the Stars (2014), Victoria & Abdul (2017), and The Father (2020). From 2017 to 2019, she played Emily Silk in the science fiction television series Counterpart. In 2022, Williams portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in the Netflix historical drama The Crown in its fifth season, a role she is set to reprise in its sixth and final season.

Acting

The Sixth Sense
7.947
Another End
6.7
Wild Bill
6.775
Peter Pan
7.146
Hanna
6.589
The Ghost Writer
6.815
The Trouble with ...
6
Flashbacks of a Fool
6.2
Seventh Son
5.516
The Heart of Me
6
Now Is Good
7.309
Sabotage
5.604
The Man from Elysian ...
5.879
The Postman
6.259
Justin and the ...
5.908
Magpie
6.111
Hyde Park on Hudson
5.235
Man Up
6.57
Anna Karenina
6.708
Miss Austen Regrets
6.111
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