Olivia Williams
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 26.232 |
| Birthday | 1968-07-26 |
| Place of Birth | Camden Town, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Olivia Haigh Williams, |
1999
The Sixth Sense
7.954/11362
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Watch Now
The Sixth Sense
2005
Tara Road
5.383/30
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Watch Now
Tara Road
2000
Four Dogs Playing Poker
4.2/9
With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dea...
Watch Now
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2004
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
7.9/7
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
Watch Now
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2010
The Ghost Writer
6.832/2144
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island aft...
Watch Now
The Ghost Writer
1998
Rushmore
7.406/2405
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls i...
Watch Now
Rushmore
2009
An Education
6.938/1268
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When...
Watch Now
An Education
2004
The Heart of Me
6.8/18
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which...
Watch Now
The Heart of Me
2002
Below
6.025/424
In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell...
Watch Now
Below
1997
The Postman
6.252/1027
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this...
Watch Now
The Postman
2001
The Body
5.4/190
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was cru...
Watch Now
The Body
2000
Born Romantic
6.2/24
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCorm...
Watch Now
Born Romantic
2008
Flashbacks of a Fool
6.221/129
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his child...
Watch Now
Flashbacks of a Fool
2001
Lucky Break
6.2/31
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which...
Watch Now
Lucky Break
2005
Valiant
5.514/871
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon...
Watch Now
Valiant
2000
Dead Babies
5.2/10
When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of...
Watch Now
Dead Babies
2010
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
6.3/56
A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in...
Watch Now
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2001
The Man from Elysian Fields
5.8/53
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined wi...
Watch Now
The Man from Elysian Fields
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.41/9393
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...
Watch Now
X-Men: The Last Stand
2008
Miss Austen Regrets
6/58
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while atte...
Watch Now
Miss Austen Regrets
2003
To Kill a King
5.739/59
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
Watch Now
To Kill a King
2011
Hanna
6.59/3279
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the w...
Watch Now
Hanna
2012
Now Is Good
7.324/1065
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Watch Now
Now Is Good
2011
Wild Bill
6.8/174
Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themsel...
Watch Now
Wild Bill
2012
Anna Karenina
6.722/2223
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...
Watch Now
Anna Karenina
2012
Hyde Park on Hudson
5.3/185
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the...
Watch Now
Hyde Park on Hudson
2006
Krakatoa: The Last Days
6.3/15
A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its er...
Watch Now
Krakatoa: The Last Days
2011
Collaborator
4.7/14
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
Watch Now
Collaborator
2014
Sabotage
5.583/1374
John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-sta...
Watch Now
Sabotage
2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
5.9/296
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
Watch Now
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2008
Broken Lines
6/1
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.
Watch Now
Broken Lines
2013
The Last Days on Mars
5.455/779
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence...
Watch Now
The Last Days on Mars
2014
Salting the Battlefield
6.25/108
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...
Watch Now
Salting the Battlefield
2003
Peter Pan
7.175/2547
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captai...
Watch Now
Peter Pan
2014
Maps to the Stars
6.181/1045
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless g...
Watch Now
Maps to the Stars
2014
Altar
4.845/103
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Watch Now
Altar
1996
Emma
6.668/123
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend,...
Watch Now
Emma
2015
Man Up
6.588/940
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast anothe...
Watch Now
Man Up
2014
Seventh Son
5.507/2431
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner...
Watch Now
Seventh Son
2004
The Hotel In Amsterdam
0/0
Six London friends, whose lives and work are overshadowed by a demanding film producer, flee the country for a weekend to escape his clutches. Having...
Watch Now
The Hotel In Amsterdam
2013
The Guest
0/0
The Guest is a modern dark fable starring Olivia Williams (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, An Education) and with an original score by Tom Hobden of Noah and t...
Watch Now
The Guest
2017
The White King
5.3/41
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter,...
Watch Now
The White King
2014
Magpie
5.8/5
A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is pu...
Watch Now
Magpie
2017
Victoria & Abdul
6.911/1132
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Watch Now
Victoria & Abdul
2019
Nyet!
6/1
When Boris and Olga arrive at the port of Dover with precious cargo, the border authorities, headed by the formidable Mrs. Pyke, uncover truths hidden...
Watch Now
Nyet!
2020
The Father
8.127/3063
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved o...
Watch Now
The Father
2007
Damage
0/0
Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his...
Watch Now
Damage
2017
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
7.7/3
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos....
Watch Now
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
2022
The Impact
0/0
The Impact is a fascinating tapestry of interwoven stories from diverse voices around the world; at times moving and profound, at others hilarious and...
Watch Now
The Impact
2022
My Name Is Leon
2.5/2
Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a breakdown. Leon is determined to find him and gets un...
Watch Now
My Name Is Leon
2024
The Trouble with Jessica
4.8/4
Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. Whe...
Watch Now
The Trouble with Jessica
2024
Another End
7.7/12
Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the g...
Watch Now