The Guardian: Olivia Williams says actors need ‘nudity rider’-type controls for AI body scans
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Olivia Williams
Olivia Haigh Williams 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.
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entertainment · British actress (born 1968) · actor · playwright · stage actor · film actor · writer · also Olivia Williams, Williams
Born 26 July 1968 · Q231163
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The Guardian: ‘Watch out, I’m even less inhibited’: Olivia Williams on movies, misogyny and living with cancer
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘Watch out, I’m even less inhibited’: Olivia Williams on movies, misogyny and living with cancer
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Olivia Williams: ‘I have unattractive knees. They have taken offence at my scathing remarks and decided to stop functioning’
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And 2023, she portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in the final two seasons of Netflix's historical drama The Crown
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Olivia Williams: ‘I’ve been close enough to stardom to see how horrifying it is’
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Was cast as Camilla Parker Bowles, for the final two seasons of The Crown
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn'
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And, after treatment, became an ambassador for Pancreatic Cancer UK
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2017· 1 entry
Williams began appearing in the Starz science-fiction series Counterpart, playing Emily, the wife of lead character Howard Silk
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2014· 2 entries
Williams co-starred in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, a dark comic look at Hollywood excess
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Portrayed Meg Hamilton in the British mystery film Altar
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2010· 1 entry
Williams won acclaim for her performance as Ruth Lang in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, winning the National Society of Film Critics Award, London Critics Circle Film Award for best supporting actress and was runner-
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2003· 1 entry
Married the actor and playwright Rhashan Stone, with whom she has two daughters
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2000· 1 entry
Williams wrote the short story "The Significance of Hair" for BBC Radio and read it on the air
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1995· 1 entry
Toured the United States in the National Theatre production of Shakespeare's Richard III starring Ian McKellen
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-07-26.
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