Olivia Williams
Actor
Born July 26, 1968 in 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 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).
Filmography
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Alma Reville
Dune: Prophecy
Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
Pigs
Mum
The Trouble with Jessica
Beth
Another End
Juliette
Unknown Belize
Narrator
Funny Woman
Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Winterbloom (voice)
My Name Is Leon
Sylvia
The Impact
The President
The Wheel of Time
Queen Morgase Trakand
The Nevers
Lavinia Bidlow
The Father
The Woman
Homemade
Queen (voice)
Nyet!
Mrs. Pyke
Counterpart
Emily Burton Silk
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
Alice
Victoria & Abdul
Baroness Churchill
The Escape
Sarah
The Halcyon
Lady Priscilla Hamilton
The Crown
Camilla Parker Bowles
The White King
Sophia (voice)
Emma, Change the Locks
Emma
Man Up
Hilary
Altar
Meg
Seventh Son
Mam Ward
Manhattan
Liza Winter
Maps to the Stars
Cristina Weiss
Sabotage
Caroline
Salting the Battlefield
Belinda Kay
The Last Days on Mars
Kim Aldrich
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Queen (voice)
Hyde Park on Hudson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Now Is Good
Mother
Anna Karenina
Countess Vronsky
Playhouse Presents
Dorothy Green
Wild Bill
Kelly
Collaborator
Emma Stiles
Case Sensitive
Charlie Zailer
Hanna
Rachel
OK! TV
Terriers
Miriam Foster
The Ghost Writer
Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Betty Dury
An Education
Miss Stubbs
Dollhouse
Adelle DeWitt
Broken Lines
Zoe
Flashbacks of a Fool
Grace Scott
Miss Austen Regrets
Jane Austen
Damage
Michelle Cahill
Krakatoa: The Last Days
Johanna Beijerinck
X-Men: The Last Stand
Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Tara Road
Ria
Valiant
Victoria (voice)
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Agatha Christie
The Hotel In Amsterdam
Annie
The Heart of Me
Madeleine
Peter Pan
Mary Darling
To Kill a King
Lady Anne Fairfax
Below
Claire
The Man from Elysian Fields
Andrea
Lucky Break
Annabel
The Body
Sharon Golban
Born Romantic
Eleanor
Dead Babies
Diana
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Audrey
Jason and the Argonauts
Hera
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
Spaced
Irate Cyclist
The Sixth Sense
Anna Crowe
Rushmore
Rosemary Cross
The Postman
Abby
Emma
Jane Fairfax
Friends
Felicity
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Jennifer Norris
Van der Valk
Irene Kortman