Olivia Williams
Known For
Acting
Born
1968-07-26 in 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.
Most Known For
Friends
as Felicity
The Crown
as Camilla Parker Bowles
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Winterbloom (voice)
The Wheel of Time
as Queen Morgase Trakand
Dollhouse
as Adelle DeWitt
The Nevers
as Lavinia Bidlow
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
as Alma Reville
Dune: Prophecy
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
Counterpart
as Emily Burton Silk
The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
Manhattan
as Liza Winter
Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross
OK! TV
The Body
as Sharon Golban
Emma
as Jane Fairfax
Van der Valk
as Irene Kortman
Seventh Son
as Mam Ward
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Jennifer Norris
Jason and the Argonauts
as Hera
Hanna
as Rachel