Acting · Camden Town, London, England, UK · Born July 26, 1968
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.
The Good Daughter
2026
as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
TVMonster: The Ed Gein Story
2025
as Alma Reville
TVDune: Prophecy
2024
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
MoviePigs
2024
as Mum
MovieThe Trouble with Jessica
2024
as Beth
MovieAnother End
2024
as Juliette
TVUnknown Belize
2024
as Narrator
TVFunny Woman
2023
as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
TVThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Winterbloom (voice)
MovieMy Name Is Leon
2022
as Sylvia
MovieThe Impact
2022
as The President
TVThe Wheel of Time
2021
as Queen Morgase Trakand
TVThe Nevers
2021
as Lavinia Bidlow
MovieThe Father
2020
as The Woman
TVHomemade
2020
as Queen (voice)
MovieNyet!
2019
as Mrs. Pyke
TVCounterpart
2017
as Emily Burton Silk
MovieNational Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017
as Alice
MovieVictoria & Abdul
2017
as Baroness Churchill
MovieThe Escape
2017
as Sarah
TVThe Halcyon
2017
as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
TVThe Crown
2016
as Camilla Parker Bowles
MovieThe White King
2016
as Sophia (voice)
MovieEmma, Change the Locks
2015
as Emma
MovieMan Up
2015
as Hilary
MovieAltar
2014
as Meg
MovieSeventh Son
2014
as Mam Ward
TVManhattan
2014
as Liza Winter
Magpie
2014
as The Woman
MovieMaps to the Stars
2014
as Cristina Weiss
MovieSabotage
2014
as Caroline
MovieSalting the Battlefield
2014
as Belinda Kay
MovieThe Last Days on Mars
2013
as Kim Aldrich
MovieJustin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Queen (voice)
The Guest
2013
as Marguerite
MovieHyde Park on Hudson
2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt
MovieNow Is Good
2012
as Mother
MovieAnna Karenina
2012
as Countess Vronsky
TVPlayhouse Presents
2012
as Dorothy Green
MovieWild Bill
2011
as Kelly
MovieCollaborator
2011
as Emma Stiles
TVCase Sensitive
2011
as Charlie Zailer
MovieHanna
2011
as Rachel
TVOK! TV
2011
TVTerriers
2010
as Miriam Foster
MovieThe Ghost Writer
2010
as Ruth Lang
MovieSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010
as Betty Dury
MovieAn Education
2009
as Miss Stubbs
TVDollhouse
2009
as Adelle DeWitt
MovieBroken Lines
2008
as Zoe
MovieFlashbacks of a Fool
2008
as Grace Scott
MovieMiss Austen Regrets
2008
as Jane Austen
MovieDamage
2007
as Michelle Cahill
MovieKrakatoa: The Last Days
2006
as Johanna Beijerinck
MovieX-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
MovieTara Road
2005
as Ria
MovieValiant
2005
as Victoria (voice)
MovieAgatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Agatha Christie
MovieThe Hotel In Amsterdam
2004
as Annie
MovieThe Heart of Me
2004
as Madeleine
MoviePeter Pan
2003
as Mary Darling
MovieTo Kill a King
2003
as Lady Anne Fairfax
MovieBelow
2002
as Claire
MovieThe Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Andrea
MovieLucky Break
2001
as Annabel
MovieThe Body
2001
as Sharon Golban
MovieBorn Romantic
2000
as Eleanor
MovieDead Babies
2000
as Diana
MovieFour Dogs Playing Poker
2000
as Audrey
TVJason and the Argonauts
2000
as Hera
MovieThe Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
TVSpaced
1999
as Irate Cyclist
MovieThe Sixth Sense
1999
as Anna Crowe
MovieRushmore
1998
as Rosemary Cross
MovieThe Postman
1997
as Abby
MovieEmma
1996
as Jane Fairfax
TVFriends
1994
as Felicity
TVThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Jennifer Norris
TVVan der Valk
1972
as Irene Kortman
