1968-07-26 Camden Town, London, England, UK
Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 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.
Another End | Juliette | 2024-03-21 | |
The Trouble with Jessica | Beth | 2024-04-05 | |
The Impact | The President | 2022-05-31 | |
My Name Is Leon | Sylvia | 2022-06-10 | |
The Father | The Woman | 2020-12-23 | |
Nyet! | Mrs. Pyke | 2019-03-17 | |
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes | Alice | 2017-07-18 | |
Victoria & Abdul | Baroness Churchill | 2017-09-13 | |
The White King | Sophia (voice) | 2016-06-18 | |
Man Up | Hilary | 2015-05-29 | |
Seventh Son | Mam Ward | 2014-12-12 | |
Altar | Meg | 2014-12-27 | |
Magpie | The Woman | 2014-06-09 | |
Salting the Battlefield | Belinda Kay | 2014-03-27 | |
Sabotage | Investigator Caroline Brentwood | 2014-03-28 | |
Maps to the Stars | Cristina Weiss | 2014-05-21 | |
The Last Days on Mars | Kim Aldrich | 2013-08-11 | |
Justin and the Knights of Valour | Queen (voice) | 2013-08-09 | |
The Guest | Marguerite | 2013-05-28 | |
Now Is Good | Mother | 2012-09-19 | |
Hyde Park on Hudson | Eleanor Roosevelt | 2012-12-07 | |
Anna Karenina | Countess Vronsky | 2012-09-06 | |
Collaborator | Emma Stiles | 2011-10-08 | |
Hanna | Rachel | 2011-04-07 | |
Wild Bill | Kelly | 2011-10-21 | |
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | Betty Dury | 2010-01-08 | |
The Ghost Writer | Ruth Lang | 2010-02-12 | |
An Education | Miss Stubbs | 2009-10-29 | |
Miss Austen Regrets | Jane Austen | 2008-02-03 | |
Broken Lines | Zoe | 2008-09-02 | |
Flashbacks of a Fool | Grace Scott | 2008-06-05 | |
Damage | Michelle Cahill | 2007-06-24 | |
X-Men: The Last Stand | Dr. Moira MacTaggert | 2006-05-24 | |
Krakatoa: The Last Days | Johanna Beijerinck | 2006-06-11 | |
Tara Road | Ria | 2005-05-11 | |
Valiant | Victoria (voice) | 2005-03-25 | |
The Heart of Me | Madeleine | 2004-02-10 | |
The Hotel In Amsterdam | 2004-03-09 | ||
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | Agatha Christie | 2004-09-22 | |
Peter Pan | Mrs. Darling | 2003-12-18 | |
To Kill a King | Lady Anne Fairfax | 2003-05-16 | |
Below | Claire | 2002-08-11 | |
The Body | Sharon Golban | 2001-04-13 | |
The Man from Elysian Fields | Andrea | 2001-09-13 | |
Lucky Break | Annabel | 2001-08-24 | |
Four Dogs Playing Poker | Audrey | 2000-06-06 | |
Born Romantic | Eleanor | 2000-09-14 | |
Dead Babies | 2000-09-07 | ||
The Sixth Sense | Anna Crowe | 1999-08-06 | |
Rushmore | Rosemary Cross | 1998-12-11 | |
The Postman | Abby | 1997-12-25 | |
Emma | Jane Fairfax | 1996-10-02 |