Olivia Williams

Olivia Williams

1968-07-26 Camden Town, London, England, UK 56 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

Filter by:

Complete Filmography

Pigs

2024

as Mum

Acting

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

The Trouble with Jessica

2024

as Beth

6.2
Acting

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

Another End

2024

as Juliette

6.8
Acting

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

My Name Is Leon

2022

as Sylvia

2.5
Acting

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

The Impact

2022

as The President

Acting

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

The Father

2020

as The Woman

8.1
Acting

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!

Nyet!

2019

as Mrs. Pyke

6.0
Acting

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

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

2017

as Alice

7.7
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes

2017

as Alice

Acting

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

Victoria & Abdul

2017

as Baroness Churchill

6.9
Acting

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

The Escape

The Escape

2017

as Sarah

Acting

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

The White King

2016

as Sophia (voice)

5.4
Acting

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

Man Up

2015

as Hilary

6.6
Acting

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

Altar

2014

as Meg

4.9
Acting

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

Seventh Son

Seventh Son

2014

as Mam Ward

5.5
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

Maps to the Stars

2014

as Cristina Weiss

6.2
Acting

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

Sabotage

2014

as Investigator Caroline Brentwood

5.6
Acting

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

Salting the Battlefield

2014

as Belinda Kay

6.3
Acting

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

The Last Days on Mars

2013

as Kim Aldrich

5.5
Acting

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

Justin and the Knights of Valour

2013

as Queen (voice)

5.9
Acting

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

Acting

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

Hyde Park on Hudson

2012

as Eleanor Roosevelt

5.2
Acting

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

Now Is Good

2012

as Mother

7.3
Acting

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

Anna Karenina

2012

as Countess Vronsky

6.7
Acting

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

Wild Bill

2011

as Kelly

6.8
Acting

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

Collaborator

2011

as Emma Stiles

4.7
Acting

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

Hanna

2011

as Rachel

6.6
Acting

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

The Ghost Writer

2010

as Ruth Lang

6.8
Acting

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

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

2010

as Betty Dury

6.2
Acting

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

An Education

2009

as Miss Stubbs

6.9
Acting

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

Broken Lines

2008

as Zoe

3.5
Acting

After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.

Flashbacks of a Fool

Flashbacks of a Fool

2008

as Grace Scott

6.2
Acting

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

Miss Austen Regrets

2008

as Jane Austen

6.1
Acting

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

Damage

2007

as Michelle Cahill

1.0
Acting

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

Krakatoa: The Last Days

2006

as Johanna Beijerinck

6.3
Acting

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

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

as Dr. Moira MacTaggert

6.4
Acting

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

Tara Road

2005

as Ria

5.4
Acting

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Valiant

Valiant

2005

as Victoria (voice)

5.5
Acting

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

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

2004

as Agatha Christie

8.1
Acting

A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.

The Hotel In Amsterdam

2004

Acting

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

The Heart of Me

2004

as Madeleine

6.3
Acting

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

Peter Pan

2003

as Mary Darling

7.2
Acting

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

To Kill a King

2003

as Lady Anne Fairfax

5.7
Acting

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

Below

2002

as Claire

6.0
Acting

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

The Man from Elysian Fields

2001

as Andrea

5.9
Acting

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

Lucky Break

2001

as Annabel

6.2
Acting

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

The Body

2001

as Sharon Golban

5.5
Acting

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

Born Romantic

2000

as Eleanor

6.1
Acting

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

Dead Babies

2000

4.9
Acting

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

Four Dogs Playing Poker

2000

as Audrey

3.6
Acting

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'

The Making of 'Rushmore'

2000

as Self

6.0
Acting

An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson.

The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense

1999

as Anna Crowe

8.0
Acting

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

Rushmore

Rushmore

1998

as Rosemary Cross

7.4
Acting

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

The Postman

1997

as Abby

6.3
Acting

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

Emma

1996

as Jane Fairfax

6.6
Acting

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