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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2000The Making of 'Rushmore' — Self