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.

Cast

The Sixth Sense

(Anna Crowe)

Tara Road

(Ria)

Four Dogs Playing Poker

(Audrey)

Rushmore

(Rosemary Cross)

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

(Agatha Christie)

The Ghost Writer

(Ruth Lang)

An Education

(Miss Stubbs)

The Heart of Me

(Madeleine)

Below

(Claire)

The Postman

(Abby)

Flashbacks of a Fool

(Grace Scott)

The Body

(Sharon Golban)

Born Romantic

(Eleanor)

Lucky Break

(Annabel)

Valiant

(Victoria (voice))

Dead Babies

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

(Betty Dury)

The Man from Elysian Fields

(Andrea)

Miss Austen Regrets

(Jane Austen)

To Kill a King

(Lady Anne Fairfax)

Hanna

(Rachel)

Now Is Good

(Mother)

Wild Bill

(Kelly)

Anna Karenina

(Countess Vronsky)

Hyde Park on Hudson

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

Krakatoa: The Last Days

(Johanna Beijerinck)

Collaborator

(Emma Stiles)

Sabotage

(Investigator Caroline Brentwood)

Justin and the Knights of Valour

(Queen (voice))

Broken Lines

(Zoe)

Maps to the Stars

(Cristina Weiss)

The Last Days on Mars

(Kim Aldrich)

The Impact

(The President)

My Name Is Leon

(Sylvia)

Salting the Battlefield

(Belinda Kay)

Peter Pan

(Mrs. Darling)

Seventh Son

(Mam Ward)

Altar

(Meg)

Emma

(Jane Fairfax)

Man Up

(Hilary)

Another End

(Juliette)

The Trouble with Jessica

(Beth)

Magpie

(The Woman)

The Hotel In Amsterdam

The Guest

(Marguerite)

The White King

(Sophia (voice))

X-Men: The Last Stand

(Dr. Moira MacTaggert)

Victoria & Abdul

(Baroness Churchill)

Nyet!

(Mrs. Pyke)

The Father

(The Woman)

Damage

(Michelle Cahill)

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

(Alice)

The Making of 'Rushmore'

(Self)

Spaced

(Irate Cyclist)

Van der Valk

(Irene Kortman)

Dollhouse

(Adelle DeWitt)

OK! TV

Case Sensitive

(Charlie Zailer)

Manhattan

(Liza Winter)

Dune: Prophecy

(Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen)

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

(Jennifer Norris)

Friends

(Felicity)

Terriers

(Miriam Foster)

The Halcyon

(Lady Priscilla Hamilton)

The Crown

(Camilla Parker Bowles)

Counterpart

(Emily Burton Silk)

Jason and the Argonauts

(Hera)

The Nevers

(Lavinia Bidlow)

Homemade

(Queen (voice))

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

(Winterbloom (voice))