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Olivia Williams
Camden Town, London, England, UK
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 Theatr…
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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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2026
The Good Daughter
TV show Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
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2026
Young Sherlock
TV show
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2025
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
TV show Alma Reville
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2024
Dune: Prophecy
TV show Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
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2024
Pigs
Movie Mum
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2024
The Trouble with Jessica
Movie Beth
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2024
Another End
Movie Juliette
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2024
Unknown Belize
TV show Narrator
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2023
Funny Woman
TV show Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
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2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV show Winterbloom (voice)
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2022
My Name Is Leon
Movie Sylvia
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2022
The Impact
Movie The President
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2021
The Wheel of Time
TV show Queen Morgase Trakand
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2021
The Nevers
TV show Lavinia Bidlow
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2020
The Father
Movie The Woman
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2020
Homemade
TV show Queen (voice)
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2019
Nyet!
Movie Mrs. Pyke
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2017
Counterpart
TV show Emily Burton Silk
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2017
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Movie Alice
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2017
Victoria & Abdul
Movie Baroness Churchill
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2017
The Escape
Movie Sarah
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2017
The Halcyon
TV show Lady Priscilla Hamilton
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2016
The Crown
TV show Camilla Parker Bowles
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2016
The White King
Movie Sophia (voice)
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2015
Emma, Change the Locks
Movie Emma
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2015
Man Up
Movie Hilary
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2014
Altar
Movie Meg
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2014
Seventh Son
Movie Mam Ward
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2014
Manhattan
TV show Liza Winter
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2014
Magpie
Movie The Woman
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2014
Maps to the Stars
Movie Cristina Weiss
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2014
Sabotage
Movie Caroline
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2014
Salting the Battlefield
Movie Belinda Kay
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2013
The Last Days on Mars
Movie Kim Aldrich
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2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Movie Queen (voice)
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2013
The Guest
Movie Marguerite
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2012
Hyde Park on Hudson
Movie Eleanor Roosevelt
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2012
Now Is Good
Movie Mother
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2012
Anna Karenina
Movie Countess Vronsky
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2012
Playhouse Presents
TV show Dorothy Green
