Olivia Williams

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 (81 Appearances)

The Good Daughter

TBA

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

2025

Dune: Prophecy - Behind the Scenes

2024

Dune: Prophecy

2024

Pigs

2024

The Trouble with Jessica

2024

Another End

2024

Unknown Belize

2024

Funny Woman

2023

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022

My Name Is Leon

2022

The Impact

2022

The Wheel of Time

2021

The Nevers

2021

The Father

2020

Homemade

2020

Nyet!

2019

Counterpart

2017

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

2017

National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes

2017

Victoria & Abdul

2017

The Escape

2017

The Halcyon

2017

The Crown

2016

The White King

2016

Emma, Change the Locks

2015

Man Up

2015

Altar

2014

Seventh Son

2014

Manhattan

2014

Magpie

2014

Maps to the Stars

2014

Sabotage

2014

Salting the Battlefield

2014

The Last Days on Mars

2013

Justin and the Knights of Valour

2013

The Guest

2013

Hyde Park on Hudson

2012

Now Is Good

2012

Anna Karenina

2012

Playhouse Presents

2012

Wild Bill

2011

Collaborator

2011

Case Sensitive

2011

Hanna

2011

OK! TV

2011

Terriers

2010

The Ghost Writer

2010

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

2010

An Education

2009

Dollhouse

2009

Broken Lines

2008

Flashbacks of a Fool

2008

Miss Austen Regrets

2008

Damage

2007

Krakatoa: The Last Days

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

Tara Road

2005

Valiant

2005

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

2004

The Hotel In Amsterdam

2004

The Heart of Me

2004

Peter Pan

2003

To Kill a King

2003

Below

2002

The Man from Elysian Fields

2001

Lucky Break

2001

The Body

2001

Born Romantic

2000

Dead Babies

2000

Four Dogs Playing Poker

2000

Jason and the Argonauts

2000

The Making of 'Rushmore'

2000

Spaced

1999

The Sixth Sense

1999

Rushmore

1998

The Postman

1997

Emma

1996 Debut

Friends

1994

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

Van der Valk

1972
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