Olivia Williams

Born: 1968-07-26

Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 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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as Anna Crowe
Released: 1999-08-06

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy...

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The Father

as The Woman
Released: 2020-12-23

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his...

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Seventh Son

as Mam Ward
Released: 2014-12-12

John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the...

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Peter Pan

as Mrs. Darling
Released: 2003-12-18

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime...

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The Postman

as Abby
Released: 1997-12-25

In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered...

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as Countess Vronsky
Released: 2012-09-06

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother....

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as Rachel
Released: 2011-04-07

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been...

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Sabotage

as Investigator Caroline Brentwood
Released: 2014-03-28

John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug...

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Below

as Claire
Released: 2002-08-11

In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what...

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Rushmore

as Rosemary Cross
Released: 1998-12-11

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention...

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An Education

as Miss Stubbs
Released: 2009-10-29

Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and...

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Man Up

as Hilary
Released: 2015-05-29

A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups...

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Victoria & Abdul

as Baroness Churchill
Released: 2017-09-13

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

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Valiant

as Victoria (voice)
Released: 2005-03-25

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he...

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as Ruth Lang
Released: 2010-02-12

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister...

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Emma

as Jane Fairfax
Released: 1996-10-02

Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately...

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The Last Days on Mars

as Kim Aldrich
Released: 2013-08-11

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he...

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as Kelly
Released: 2011-10-21

Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old...

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Salting the Battlefield

as Belinda Kay
Released: 2014-03-27

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue...

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Maps to the Stars

as Cristina Weiss
Released: 2014-05-21

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family...

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Justin and the Knights of Valour

as Queen (voice)
Released: 2013-08-09

A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as...

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Hyde Park on Hudson

as Eleanor Roosevelt
Released: 2012-12-07

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered...

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Now Is Good

as Mother
Released: 2012-09-19

A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping...

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The Body

as Sharon Golban
Released: 2001-04-13

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the...

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The Man from Elysian Fields

as Andrea
Released: 2001-09-13

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to...

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Flashbacks of a Fool

as Grace Scott
Released: 2008-06-05

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his...

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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

as Betty Dury
Released: 2010-01-08

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by...

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Altar

as Meg
Released: 2014-12-27

A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in...

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Miss Austen Regrets

as Jane Austen
Released: 2008-02-03

An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her...

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To Kill a King

as Lady Anne Fairfax
Released: 2003-05-16

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to...

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Tara Road

as Ria
Released: 2005-05-11

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

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Lucky Break

as Annabel
Released: 2001-08-24

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets...

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Born Romantic

as Eleanor
Released: 2000-09-14

In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three...

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The White King

as Sophia (voice)
Released: 2017-01-27

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside...

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The Trouble with Jessica

as Beth
Released: 2024-04-05

Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve...

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Krakatoa: The Last Days

as Johanna Beijerinck
Released: 2006-06-11

A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano...

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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

as Agatha Christie
Released: 2004-09-22

A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.

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Another End

as Juliette
Released: 2024-03-21

Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead...

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Collaborator

as Emma Stiles
Released: 2011-10-08

A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his...

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Four Dogs Playing Poker

as Audrey
Released: 2000-06-06

With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a...

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The Heart of Me

as Madeleine
Released: 2004-02-10

Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in...

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Broken Lines

as Zoe
Released: 2008-09-02

After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for...

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X-Men: The Last Stand

as Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Released: 2006-05-24

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor...

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Dead Babies

as uncredited
Released: 2000-09-07

When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed...

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Damage

as Michelle Cahill
Released: 2007-06-24

Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their...

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The Impact

as The President
Released: 2022-05-31

The Impact is a fascinating tapestry of interwoven stories from diverse voices around the world;...

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My Name Is Leon

as Sylvia
Released: 2022-06-10

Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a...

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National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes

as Alice
Released: 2017-07-18

In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters...

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Nyet!

as Mrs. Pyke
Released: 2019-03-17

When Boris and Olga arrive at the port of Dover with precious cargo, the border authorities,...

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Friends

as Felicity
First aired: 1994-09-22

Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world,...

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The Nevers

as Lavinia Bidlow
First aired: 2021-04-11

In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women —...

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The Crown

as Camilla Parker Bowles
First aired: 2016-11-04

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...

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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Jennifer Norris
First aired: 1987-08-02

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...

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Dollhouse

as Adelle DeWitt
First aired: 2009-02-13

Echo is a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals whose personalities...

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Van der Valk

as Irene Kortman
First aired: 1972-09-13

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV...

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Manhattan

as Liza Winter
First aired: 2014-07-27

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science...

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Counterpart

as Emily Burton Silk
First aired: 2017-12-10

Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life...

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Spaced

as Irate Cyclist
First aired: 1999-09-24

Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way...

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Terriers

as Miriam Foster
First aired: 2010-09-08

Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal...

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Dune: Prophecy

as Tula Harkonnen
First aired:

10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, two Harkonnen sisters combat forces that...

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Jason and the Argonauts

as Hera
First aired: 2000-05-07

At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of...

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OK! TV

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-02-14

OK! TV is an early evening magazine programme, broadcast on Channel 5 as a brand extension of...

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Homemade

as Queen (voice)
First aired: 2020-06-30

Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation...

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The Halcyon

as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
First aired: 2017-01-02

The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a...

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Case Sensitive

as Charlie Zailer
First aired: 2011-05-02

When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of...

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