Olivia Williams

Known for ActingBorn 1968-07-26 (age 58)Camden Town, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Friends

The Crown

The Father

Terriers

The Nevers

Young Sherlock

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

The Sixth Sense

Spaced

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

The Wheel of Time

Counterpart

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Dune: Prophecy

Now Is Good

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Rushmore

Dollhouse

Nyet!

Peter Pan

Manhattan

Emma, Change the Locks

The Guest

Funny Woman

Victoria & Abdul

An Education

Case Sensitive

Another End

The Ghost Writer

Wild Bill

Anna Karenina

Man Up

Hanna

Emma

The Halcyon

Jason and the Argonauts

X-Men: The Last Stand

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Salting the Battlefield

Krakatoa: The Last Days

Maps to the Stars

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Lucky Break

Flashbacks of a Fool

The Trouble with Jessica

The Postman

Magpie

The Making of 'Rushmore'