
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.
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Films
21
TV Shows
Known For
76 Credits
Friends
as Felicity
1994

The Crown
as Camilla Parker Bowles
2016

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Winterbloom (voice)
2022

The Wheel of Time
as Queen Morgase Trakand
2021

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
as Alma Reville
2025

Dune: Prophecy
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
2024

Dollhouse
as Adelle DeWitt
2009

The Sixth Sense
as Anna Crowe
1999

OK! TV
2011

Manhattan
as Liza Winter
2014

The Nevers
as Lavinia Bidlow
2021

Counterpart
as Emily Burton Silk
2017