Age: 57
female
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.
Olivia Williams
Miss Havisham
for Miss Havisham in Lost in a Good Book
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Thursday Next tries to build a quiet life after her last case, but the world around her starts to fracture. A political storm rises. A lost Shakespeare play reappears at the perfect moment. The powerful Goliath Corporation moves in the shadows. A new threat targets Thursday’s family. Reality feels unstable and someone is rewriting lives. To fight back, Thursday pushes deeper into fiction than ever. She learns to “bookjump,” entering stories without machines. Inside the vast universe of literature she meets Jurisfiction, a secret police force that protects the order of books. Miss Havisham becomes her volatile mentor as Thursday trains, solves crises inside classic novels, and uncovers traces of a hidden enemy manipulating memories. As pressure mounts in the real world and inside fiction, Thursday races to expose the conspiracy behind the political rise of a dangerous figure, the stolen manuscript at the center of the chaos, and the force trying to erase parts of her life. She crosses between worlds, evades time-agents and corporate hunters, and chases the truth buried in her own memories. The story builds toward a showdown that tests Thursday’s loyalty to her family, her world, and the fragile boundary between fiction and reality.
