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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 26, 1968
Place of Birth
Camden Town, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Olivia Haigh Williams
- اولیویا ویلیامز
Olivia Williams
2.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.3
Alma Reville
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
2025
7.3
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
Dune: Prophecy
2024
0.0
Mum
Pigs
2024
6.0
Beth
The Trouble with Jessica
2024
6.7
Juliette
Another End
2024
6.9
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
Funny Woman
2023
7.3
Winterbloom (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
3.7
Sylvia
My Name Is Leon
2022
0.0
The President
The Impact
2022
7.6
Queen Morgase Trakand
The Wheel of Time
2021
Credits
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
as Alma Reville
2025
7.3
Dune: Prophecy
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
2024
7.3
Pigs
as Mum
2024
0.0
The Trouble with Jessica
as Beth
2024
6.0
Another End
as Juliette
2024
6.7
Funny Woman
as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
2023
6.9
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Winterbloom (voice)
2022
7.3
My Name Is Leon
as Sylvia
2022
3.7
The Impact
as The President
2022
0.0
The Wheel of Time
as Queen Morgase Trakand
2021
7.6
The Nevers
as Lavinia Bidlow
2021
7.9
The Father
as The Woman
2020
8.1
Homemade
as Queen (voice)
2020
5.5
Nyet!
as Mrs. Pyke
2019
7.0
Counterpart
as Emily Burton Silk
2017
7.4
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
as Alice
2017
7.7
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
as Alice
2017
0.0
Victoria & Abdul
as Baroness Churchill
2017
6.9
The Escape
as Sarah
2017
0.0
The Halcyon
as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
2017
6.3
The Crown
as Camilla Parker Bowles
2016
8.2
The White King
as Sophia (voice)
2016
5.3
Emma, Change the Locks
as Emma
2015
7.0
Man Up
as Hilary
2015
6.6
Altar
as Meg
2014
4.8
Seventh Son
as Mam Ward
2014
5.5
Manhattan
as Liza Winter
2014
7.1
🎬
Magpie
as The Woman
2014
6.1
Maps to the Stars
as Cristina Weiss
2014
6.2
Sabotage
as Caroline
2014
5.6
Salting the Battlefield
as Belinda Kay
2014
6.2
The Last Days on Mars
as Kim Aldrich
2013
5.5
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Queen (voice)
2013
5.9
🎬
The Guest
as Marguerite
2013
0.0
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2012
5.2
Now Is Good
as Mother
2012
7.3
Anna Karenina
as Countess Vronsky
2012
6.7
Wild Bill
as Kelly
2011
6.8
Collaborator
as Emma Stiles
2011
4.8
Case Sensitive
as Charlie Zailer
2011
6.9
Hanna
as Rachel
2011
6.6
OK! TV
2011
4.0
Terriers
as Miriam Foster
2010
7.9
The Ghost Writer
as Ruth Lang
2010
6.8
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
as Betty Dury
2010
6.3
An Education
as Miss Stubbs
2009
6.9
Dollhouse
as Adelle DeWitt
2009
7.2
Broken Lines
as Zoe
2008
3.5
Flashbacks of a Fool
as Grace Scott
2008
6.2
Miss Austen Regrets
as Jane Austen
2008
6.1
Damage
as Michelle Cahill
2007
1.0
Krakatoa: The Last Days
as Johanna Beijerinck
2006
6.3
X-Men: The Last Stand
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert
2006
6.4
Tara Road
as Ria
2005
5.2
Valiant
as Victoria (voice)
2005
5.6
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Agatha Christie
2004
8.1
The Hotel In Amsterdam
as Annie
2004
0.0
The Heart of Me
as Madeleine
2004
6.0
Peter Pan
as Mary Darling
2003
7.1
To Kill a King
as Lady Anne Fairfax
2003
5.7
Below
as Claire
2002
6.0
The Man from Elysian Fields
as Andrea
2001
5.9
Lucky Break
as Annabel
2001
6.1
The Body
as Sharon Golban
2001
5.5
Born Romantic
as Eleanor
2000
5.9
Dead Babies
as Diana
2000
4.7
Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Audrey
2000
3.5
Jason and the Argonauts
as Hera
2000
6.3
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
2000
6.0
Spaced
as Irate Cyclist
1999
7.9
The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
1999
7.9
Rushmore
as Rosemary Cross
1998
7.4
The Postman
as Abby
1997
6.3
Emma
as Jane Fairfax
1996
6.6
Friends
as Felicity
1994
8.4
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Jennifer Norris
1987
6.3
Van der Valk
as Irene Kortman
1972
5.8
🎬
The Good Daughter
as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
N/A
0.0