Olivia Williams
Actor
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.
Filmography
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert 2006
Hanna
as Rachel 2011
The Father
as The Woman 2020
Peter Pan
as Mary Darling 2003
Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross 1998
Seventh Son
as Mam Ward 2014
The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang 2010
Anna Karenina
as Countess Vronsky 2012
Sabotage
as Caroline 2014
An Education
as Miss Stubbs 2009
Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill 2017
The Postman
as Abby 1997
Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss 2014
Now Is Good
as Mother 2012
Man Up
as Hilary 2015
Valiant
as Victoria (voice) 2005