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...
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Complete Filmography
Pigs
2024
as Mum
A young woman arrives home for dinner, only to discover that she's been banned from having a glass of wine.

The Trouble with Jessica
2024
as Beth
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...

Another End
2024
as Juliette
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...

My Name Is Leon
2022
as Sylvia
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...

The Impact
2022
as The President
The Impact is a fascinating tapestry of interwoven stories from diverse voices around the world; at times moving and profound, at others hilarious and...

The Father
2020
as The Woman
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...

Nyet!
2019
as Mrs. Pyke
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...

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017
as Alice
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos. ...

National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
2017
as Alice
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, ...

Victoria & Abdul
2017
as Baroness Churchill
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

The Escape
2017
as Sarah
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...

The White King
2016
as Sophia (voice)
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,...

Man Up
2015
as Hilary
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...

Altar
2014
as Meg
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.

Seventh Son
2014
as Mam Ward
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 ...
Magpie
2014
as The Woman
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...

Maps to the Stars
2014
as Cristina Weiss
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless g...

Sabotage
2014
as Investigator Caroline Brentwood
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...

Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Belinda Kay
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...

The Last Days on Mars
2013
as Kim Aldrich
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...

Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Queen (voice)
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.
The Guest
2013
as Marguerite
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...

Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt
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 ...

Now Is Good
2012
as Mother
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.

Anna Karenina
2012
as Countess Vronsky
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...

Wild Bill
2011
as Kelly
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...

Collaborator
2011
as Emma Stiles
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.

Hanna
2011
as Rachel
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...

The Ghost Writer
2010
as Ruth Lang
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...

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010
as Betty Dury
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 ...

An Education
2009
as Miss Stubbs
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When ...

Broken Lines
2008
as Zoe
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.

Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
as Grace Scott
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his child...

Miss Austen Regrets
2008
as Jane Austen
Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the per...

Damage
2007
as Michelle Cahill
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 ...

Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006
as Johanna Beijerinck
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...

X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
as Dr. Moira MacTaggert
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...

Tara Road
2005
as Ria
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Valiant
2005
as Victoria (voice)
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...

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Agatha Christie
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.
The Hotel In Amsterdam
2004
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 ...

The Heart of Me
2004
as Madeleine
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...

Peter Pan
2003
as Mary Darling
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captai...

To Kill a King
2003
as Lady Anne Fairfax
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

Below
2002
as Claire
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...

The Man from Elysian Fields
2001
as Andrea
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...

Lucky Break
2001
as Annabel
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...

The Body
2001
as Sharon Golban
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...

Born Romantic
2000
as Eleanor
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCorm...

Dead Babies
2000
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...

Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
as Audrey
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...

The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson.

The Sixth Sense
1999
as Anna Crowe
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Rushmore
1998
as Rosemary Cross
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...

The Postman
1997
as Abby
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 ...

Emma
1996
as Jane Fairfax
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend,...