
Olivia Williams
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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

The Crown

Friends

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Funny Woman

Homemade

X-Men: The Last Stand

The Wheel of Time

Valiant

Anna Karenina

Seventh Son

The Good Daughter

Victoria & Abdul

The Original Monster

Jason and the Argonauts

Maps to the Stars

Terriers

Peter Pan

Hanna

An Education

The Last Days on Mars

The Postman

Counterpart

The Sixth Sense

The Father

Now Is Good

The Ghost Writer

The Nevers

Sabotage

Lucky Break

Dune: Prophecy

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
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