
Olivia Williams
Acting
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.
TV Shows(22)

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Alma Reville
2025

Dune: Prophecy
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
2024

Unknown Belize
Narrator
2024

Funny Woman
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
2023

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Winterbloom (voice)
2022

The Wheel of Time
Queen Morgase Trakand
2021

The Nevers
Lavinia Bidlow
2021

Homemade
Queen (voice)
2020

Counterpart
Emily Burton Silk
2017

The Halcyon
Lady Priscilla Hamilton
2017

The Crown
Camilla Parker Bowles
2016

Manhattan
Liza Winter
2014

Playhouse Presents
Dorothy Green
2012

Case Sensitive
Charlie Zailer
2011

OK! TV
2011

Terriers
Miriam Foster
2010

Dollhouse
Adelle DeWitt
2009

Jason and the Argonauts
Hera
2000

Friends
Felicity
1994

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Jennifer Norris
1987

Van der Valk
Irene Kortman
1972
The Good Daughter
Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
Movies(57)

Pigs
Mum
2024

The Trouble with Jessica
Beth
2024

Another End
Juliette
2024

My Name Is Leon
Sylvia
2022

The Impact
The President
2022

The Father
The Woman
2020

Nyet!
Mrs. Pyke
2019

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Alice
2017

National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
Alice
2017

Victoria & Abdul
Baroness Churchill
2017

The Escape
Sarah
2017

The White King
Sophia (voice)
2016

Emma, Change the Locks
Emma
2015

Man Up
Hilary
2015

Altar
Meg
2014

Seventh Son
Mam Ward
2014
Magpie
The Woman
2014

Maps to the Stars
Cristina Weiss
2014

Sabotage
Caroline
2014

Salting the Battlefield
Belinda Kay
2014

The Last Days on Mars
Kim Aldrich
2013

Justin and the Knights of Valour
Queen (voice)
2013
The Guest
Marguerite
2013

Hyde Park on Hudson
Eleanor Roosevelt
2012

Now Is Good
Mother
2012

Anna Karenina
Countess Vronsky
2012

Wild Bill
Kelly
2011

Collaborator
Emma Stiles
2011

Hanna
Rachel
2011

The Ghost Writer
Ruth Lang
2010

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Betty Dury
2010

An Education
Miss Stubbs
2009

Broken Lines
Zoe
2008

Flashbacks of a Fool
Grace Scott
2008

Miss Austen Regrets
Jane Austen
2008

Damage
Michelle Cahill
2007

Krakatoa: The Last Days
Johanna Beijerinck
2006

X-Men: The Last Stand
Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
2006

Tara Road
Ria
2005

Valiant
Victoria (voice)
2005

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Agatha Christie
2004

The Hotel In Amsterdam
Annie
2004

The Heart of Me
Madeleine
2004

Peter Pan
Mary Darling
2003

To Kill a King
Lady Anne Fairfax
2003

Below
Claire
2002

The Man from Elysian Fields
Andrea
2001

Lucky Break
Annabel
2001

The Body
Sharon Golban
2001

Born Romantic
Eleanor
2000

Dead Babies
Diana
2000

Four Dogs Playing Poker
Audrey
2000

The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
2000

The Sixth Sense
Anna Crowe
1999

Rushmore
Rosemary Cross
1998

The Postman
Abby
1997

Emma
Jane Fairfax
1996