Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 1968) is an English actress who appears 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… Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 1968) is an English actress who appears 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.
Williams made her film debut in 1997's The Postman, followed by Rushmore (1998) and The Sixth Sense (1999). She then acted in the British films Lucky Break (2001), The Heart of Me (2002), and An Education (2009). She next had roles in the films The Ghost Writer (2010), Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Sabotage (2014), Maps to the Stars (2014), Victoria & Abdul (2017), and The Father (2020).
From 2017 to 2019, Williams played Emily Silk in the science fiction television series Counterpart. In 2022 and 2023, she portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in the final two seasons of Netflix's historical drama The Crown.
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