Olivia Williams

Actor Jul 26 (age 57) Camden Town, London, England, UK 1972–2025 (53 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

The Sixth Sense

Anna Crowe

Film

The Father

The Woman

Film

X-Men: The Last Stand

Dr. Moira MacTaggert

Film

Rushmore

Rosemary Cross

Film

Peter Pan

Mary Darling

Film

Hanna

Rachel

Film

The Ghost Writer

Ruth Lang

Film

Anna Karenina

Countess Vronsky

Filmography

Acting (81)

Movies (58)

Another End

2024

as Juliette

6.8

The Trouble with Jessica

2024

as Beth

6.0

Pigs

2024

as Mum

Dune: Prophecy - Behind the Scenes

2024

as Self

My Name Is Leon

2022

as Sylvia

3.7

The Impact

2022

as The President

The Father

as The Woman

Nyet!

as Mrs. Pyke

The Escape

as Sarah

Victoria & Abdul

2017

as Baroness Churchill

6.9

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

2017

as Alice

7.7

National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes

2017

as Alice

The White King

as Sophia (voice)

Man Up

as Hilary

Emma, Change the Locks

as Emma

Seventh Son

as Mam Ward

Sabotage

as Caroline

Maps to the Stars

as Cristina Weiss

Altar

as Meg

Salting the Battlefield

as Belinda Kay

Magpie

as The Woman

Justin and the Knights of Valour

2013

as Queen (voice)

5.9

The Last Days on Mars

2013

as Kim Aldrich

5.5

The Guest

2013

as Marguerite

Anna Karenina

as Countess Vronsky

Now Is Good

as Mother

Hyde Park on Hudson

as Eleanor Roosevelt

Hanna

as Rachel

Collaborator

as Emma Stiles

Wild Bill

as Kelly

The Ghost Writer

as Ruth Lang

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

as Betty Dury

An Education

as Miss Stubbs

Flashbacks of a Fool

as Grace Scott

Broken Lines

as Zoe

Miss Austen Regrets

as Jane Austen

Damage

as Michelle Cahill

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

as Dr. Moira MacTaggert

6.4

Krakatoa: The Last Days

2006

as Johanna Beijerinck

Valiant

as Victoria (voice)

Tara Road

as Ria

The Heart of Me

as Madeleine

The Hotel In Amsterdam

2004

as Annie

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

as Agatha Christie

Peter Pan

as Mary Darling

To Kill a King

as Lady Anne Fairfax

Below

as Claire

The Body

as Sharon Golban

The Man from Elysian Fields

as Andrea

Lucky Break

as Annabel

The Making of 'Rushmore'

as Self

Born Romantic

as Eleanor

Four Dogs Playing Poker

as Audrey

Dead Babies

as Diana

The Sixth Sense

as Anna Crowe

Rushmore

as Rosemary Cross

The Postman

as Abby

Emma

as Jane Fairfax

Television (23)

Monster: The Ed Gein Story

2025

as Alma Reville

7.2

Dune: Prophecy

2024

as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen

7.3

Unknown Belize

2024

as Narrator

Funny Woman

2023

as Gloria Balderstone, Barbara's mother

6.9

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022

as Winterbloom (voice)

7.2

The Wheel of Time

2021

as Queen Morgase Trakand

The Nevers

as Lavinia Bidlow

Homemade

as Queen (voice)

Counterpart

as Emily Burton Silk

The Halcyon

as Lady Priscilla Hamilton

6.3

The Crown

2016

as Camilla Parker Bowles

Manhattan

as Liza Winter

Playhouse Presents

as Dorothy Green

OK! TV

Case Sensitive

as Charlie Zailer

Terriers

as Miriam Foster

Dollhouse

as Adelle DeWitt

Jason and the Argonauts

as Hera

Spaced

as Irate Cyclist

Friends

as Felicity

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Jennifer Norris

Van der Valk

as Irene Kortman

The Good Daughter

as Harriet 'Gamma' Quinn