
Olivia Williams
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.017 |
Birthday | 1968-07-26 |
Place of Birth | Camden Town, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Olivia Haigh Williams, اولیویا ویلیامز, |

1999

The Sixth Sense
7.952/11929
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
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The Sixth Sense

2005

Tara Road
5.391/32
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
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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...
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Four Dogs Playing Poker

1998

Rushmore
7.4/2514
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...
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Rushmore

2004

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
8.1/8
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

2010

The Ghost Writer
6.824/2256
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...
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The Ghost Writer

2009

An Education
6.946/1321
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When...
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An Education

2004

The Heart of Me
6.5/21
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...
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The Heart of Me

2002

Below
6/453
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...
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Below

1997

The Postman
6.262/1091
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this...
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The Postman

2008

Flashbacks of a Fool
6.2/132
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his child...
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Flashbacks of a Fool

2001

The Body
5.5/209
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...
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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...
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Born Romantic

2001

Lucky Break
6.2/34
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...
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Lucky Break

2005

Valiant
5.5/907
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...
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Valiant

2000

Dead Babies
5.3/11
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...
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Dead Babies

2010

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
6.3/57
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...
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

2001

The Man from Elysian Fields
5.9/58
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...
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The Man from Elysian Fields

2008

Miss Austen Regrets
6.1/61
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...
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Miss Austen Regrets

2003

To Kill a King
5.7/64
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
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To Kill a King

2011

Hanna
6.6/3420
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...
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Hanna

2012

Now Is Good
7.3/1082
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.
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Now Is Good

2011

Wild Bill
6.762/187
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...
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Wild Bill

2012

Anna Karenina
6.714/2302
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...
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Anna Karenina

2012

Hyde Park on Hudson
5.3/195
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...
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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...
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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.
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Collaborator

2014

Sabotage
5.59/1429
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...
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Sabotage

2013

Justin and the Knights of Valour
5.9/315
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.
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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.
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Broken Lines

2014

Maps to the Stars
6.186/1082
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless g...
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Maps to the Stars

2013

The Last Days on Mars
5.5/826
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...
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The Last Days on Mars

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...
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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...
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My Name Is Leon

2014

Salting the Battlefield
6.252/117
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...
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Salting the Battlefield

2003

Peter Pan
7.15/2645
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captai...
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Peter Pan

2014

Seventh Son
5.5/2515
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...
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Seventh Son

2014

Altar
4.9/108
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
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Altar

1996

Emma
6.6/126
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend,...
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Emma

2015

Man Up
6.6/984
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...
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Man Up

2024

Another End
7.2/41
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...
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Another End

2024

The Trouble with Jessica
6.1/47
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...
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The Trouble with Jessica

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...
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Magpie

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...
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The Hotel In Amsterdam

2013

The Guest
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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...
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The Guest

2016

The White King
5.4/44
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,...
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The White King

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand
6.406/9791
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...
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X-Men: The Last Stand

2017

Victoria & Abdul
6.908/1156
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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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...
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Nyet!

2020

The Father
8.115/3273
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...
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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...
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Damage

2017

National Theatre Archive: 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....
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National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

2000

The Making of 'Rushmore'
6/3
An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson.
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National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
0/0
Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is on the brink of the most exciting work of her life,...
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National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes

2017

The Escape
0/0
A man is offered the chance to escape to his perfect dream world - all he has to do is hand over everything he owns. Will he really abandon his family...
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