Olivia Williams
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Acting Credits
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...
Known For
Filmography
The Good Daughter
2026
as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn
Young Sherlock
2026
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
2025
as Alma Reville
Another End
2024
as Juliette
The Trouble with Jessica
2024
as Beth
Pigs
2024
as Mum
Dune: Prophecy
2024
as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen
Unknown Belize
2024
as Narrator
Funny Woman
2023
as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother
The Impact
2022
as The President
My Name Is Leon
2022
as Sylvia
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
as Winterbloom (voice)
The Nevers
2021
as Lavinia Bidlow
The Wheel of Time
2021
as Queen Morgase Trakand
The Father
2020
as The Woman
Homemade
2020
as Queen (voice)
Nyet!
2019
as Mrs. Pyke
Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Baroness Churchill
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017
as Alice
The Escape
2017
as Sarah
The Halcyon
2017
as Lady Priscilla Hamilton
Counterpart
2017
as Emily Burton Silk
The White King
2016
as Sophia (voice)
The Crown
2016
as Camilla Parker Bowles
Man Up
2015
as Hilary
Emma, Change the Locks
2015
as Emma
Sabotage
2014
as Caroline
Maps to the Stars
2014
as Cristina Weiss
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Belinda Kay
Seventh Son
2014
as Mam Ward
Altar
2014
as Meg
Magpie
2014
as The Woman
Manhattan
2014
as Liza Winter
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Queen (voice)
The Last Days on Mars
2013
as Kim Aldrich
The Guest
2013
as Marguerite
Now Is Good
2012
as Mother
Anna Karenina
2012
as Countess Vronsky
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Dorothy Green
Hanna
2011
as Rachel
Wild Bill
2011
as Kelly
Collaborator
2011
as Emma Stiles
OK! TV
2011
Case Sensitive
2011
as Charlie Zailer
The Ghost Writer
2010
as Ruth Lang
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010
as Betty Dury
Terriers
2010
as Miriam Foster
An Education
2009
as Miss Stubbs
Dollhouse
2009
as Adelle DeWitt
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
as Grace Scott
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
as Jane Austen
Broken Lines
2008
as Zoe
Damage
2007
as Michelle Cahill
Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006
as Johanna Beijerinck
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert (uncredited)
Tara Road
2005
as Ria
Valiant
2005
as Victoria (voice)
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Agatha Christie
The Heart of Me
2004
as Madeleine
The Hotel In Amsterdam
2004
as Annie
To Kill a King
2003
as Lady Anne Fairfax
Peter Pan
2003
as Mary Darling
Below
2002
as Claire
The Body
2001
as Sharon Golban
Lucky Break
2001
as Annabel
The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Andrea
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
as Audrey
Born Romantic
2000
as Eleanor
Dead Babies
2000
as Diana
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
as Hera
The Sixth Sense
1999
as Anna Crowe
Spaced
1999
as Irate Cyclist
Rushmore
1998
as Rosemary Cross
The Postman
1997
as Abby
Emma
1996
as Jane Fairfax
Friends
1994
as Felicity
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Jennifer Norris
Van der Valk
1972
as Irene Kortman