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  • WIN! Theatre Tickets to watch Matthew Fox & Olivia Williams - 14 February 2011
    - - - -Matthew Fox (Lost, party of five) and Olivia Williams(The Ghost, An Education) star in the world premiere of Neil LaBute’s new dark comedy of sibling rivalry, In a Forest Dark and Deep. - -We’re giving away a pair of top price theatre tickets t

Olivia Williams - what members say


  • Rushmore
  • Rushmore review by from Liverpool, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Believe the hype 14 September 2004
    ...e is Talia Shire's son, therefore Sofia Coppola and Nic Cage's cousin ?) Brits Olivia Williams and Brian Cox balance the movie out with the best and most believable kids seen...   Read customer review
  • Krakatoa The Last Days
  • Krakatoa The Last Days review by Buglet from Worcester
    Rated - 4.5 stars Krakatoa The Last Days 12 November 2010
    ...Rupert Penry Jones and Olivia Williams play the main characters in this story which logs the events leading up to, during and after the fateful eruption of Krakatoa in the lat...   Read customer review
  • Miss Austen Regrets
  • Miss Austen Regrets review by Lorenzo57 from Birmingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars Miss Austen Regrets 10 July 2008
    ...a Law | Hugh Bonneville | Greta Scacchi | Adrian Edmondson Great performance Olivia Williams in a passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by...   Read customer review

Olivia Williams - filmography


  • The Seventh Son (2013)
    Starring: Kit Harington,  Julianne Moore,  Jeff Bridges
    Director: Sergei Bodrov
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An 18th century adventure story centered on young Thomas, who is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. His first great challenge comes when the powerful Mother Malkin escapes her confinement while the Spook is away.
    1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
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  • Anna Karenina on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Kelly MacDonald,  Emily Watson,  Keira Knightley
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Stoppard pens this Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love, directed by Joe Wright and boasting a star-studded British cast headed by Kiera Knightley and Jude Law. Trapped in a loveless marriage and the ongoing fallout of a family crisis, Anna (Knightley) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,328 member
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  • Anna Karenina - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Kelly MacDonald,  Emily Watson,  Keira Knightley
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Stoppard pens this Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love, directed by Joe Wright and boasting a star-studded British cast headed by Kiera Knightley and Jude Law. Trapped in a loveless marriage and the ongoing fallout of a family crisis, Anna (Knightley) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 644 members
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  • Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Laura Linney,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy drama starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney. In June 1939, American president Franklin D Roosevelt (Murray) hosts the British royal family at his country house in upstate New York on their first-ever visit to the United States. King George (Samuel West) and his Queen's Consort Elizabeth (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 50 members
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  • Hyde Park on Hudson - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Laura Linney,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy drama starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney. In June 1939, American president Franklin D Roosevelt (Murray) hosts the British royal family at his country house in upstate New York on their first-ever visit to the United States. King George (Samuel West) and his Queen's Consort Elizabeth (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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  • Hanna on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Saoirse Ronan,  Cate Blanchett,  Eric Bana
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,903 members
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  • Hanna - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Saoirse Ronan,  Cate Blanchett,  Eric Bana
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,451 member
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  • The Ghost - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  James Belushi,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Roman Polanski directs this political thriller based on the novel by Robert Harris. Ewan McGregor plays a ghost-writer who is hired to work on the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) following the mysterious demise of his previous collaborator. Taken to a luxury ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 10,411 members
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  • An Education - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Rosamund Pike,  Dominic Cooper
    Director: Lone Scherfig
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30- ish David. Urbane and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 8,382 members
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  • An Education on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Peter Sarsgaard,  Cara Seymour,  Emma Thompson
    Director: Lone Scherfig
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Coming-of-age drama set in 1960s London, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is an intelligent young woman on the brink of her 17th birthday, destined for a promising yet somewhat narrow future at Oxford University and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 47,135 members
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  • Broken Lines on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Steve Toussaint,  Nathan Constance,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Sallie Aprahamian
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama following the burgeoning relationship of two people who have suffered family tragedies. When Jake (Dan Fredenburgh) returns home after the death of his father, he strikes up an immediate friendship with B (Doraly Rosa). B also has a family catastrophe to deal with - her husband, Chester (Paul ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 106 members
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  • Miss Austen Regrets on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  Phyllida Law,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Jeremy Lovering
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BBC drama based on Jane Austen's actual letters and diaries that aims to reveal the secrets of this most elusive of novelists. Jane (Olivia Williams) is nearing her forties and has never married. Her sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. She is a favourite aunt to her niece Fanny ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,154 members
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  • Flashbacks of a Fool on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jodhi May,  Sid Mitchell,  Eve
    Director: Baillie Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Joe Scot (Daniel Craig) is a washed-up Hollywood star whose hedonistic lifestyle of sex, drugs and celebrity has taken its toll. Flashback to his childhood and small-town English seaside life set to the beat of Roxy music and Bowie. Joe¿s rites of passage as a young man lay the foundations for the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,297 members
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  • Peter Pan - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Jason Isaacs,  Olivia Williams,  Richard Briers
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A live-action re-telling of J.M. Barrie's classic children's story. The Darling children, Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood), John (Harry Newell), and Michael (Freddie Popplewell) follow Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter) to Neverland - a world where anything is possible. Once there, they meet Tinker Bell (Ludivine ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 58 members
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  • To Kill A King on DVD (2003)
    Starring: James Bolam,  Rupert Everett,  Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Director: Mike Barker
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mike Barker's costume drama is set 1645 when England is coming out of a civil war. The New Model Army have defeated the Royalist forces and King Charles I (Rupert Everett) is now imprisoned. General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) celebrates with his deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) but they don't ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,692 members
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  • Peter Pan on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jason Isaacs,  Olivia Williams,  Richard Briers
    Director: P.J. Hogan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 11,186 members
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  • Below on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Holt McCallany,  Bruce Greenwood,  Olivia Williams
    Director: David N. Twohy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    War adventure with an eerie supernatural undercurrent. In World War 2, an American submarine rescues three survivors from a British hospital ship sunk by the Nazis. What should have been a routine rescue mission escalates into claustrophobic terror as the crew begin collectively to experience ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,867 members
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  • The Heart Of Me on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Olivia Williams,  Luke Newberry,  Rosie Ede
    Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Opening in late 1930s London prim and proper Madeleine (Olivia Williams) and free-spirited artist Dinah (Helena Bonham Carter) are attending the funeral of their father. A love triangle begins when Madeline's (Williams) husband, Rickie (Paul Bettany) falls for Dinah (Carter). Ten years later the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,401 member
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  • The Body on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Olivia Williams,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Jonas McCord
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When an ancient tomb is discovered in Jerusalem containing what appears to be the body of Jesus, rugged priest Father Matt Gutierrez (Antonio Banderas) is dispatched by the Vatican to investigate. After meeting Dr Sharon Golban (Olivia Williams), the fiesty archaeologist responsible for finding the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 621 members
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  • Lucky Break on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Ron Cook,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Peter Cattaneo
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Following a failed bank robbery, affable crooks Jimmy (James Nesbitt) and Rudy (Lennie James) find themselves locked up for a lengthy stretch in HM Prison Long Rudford. The pair soon discover that the prison governer has written a musical based on the life of Nelson, and offer to stage the show for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 752 members
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  • Born Romantic on DVD (2000)
    Starring: David Morrissey,  Olivia Willi,  Olivia Williams
    Director: David Kane
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three men in London are on the hunt for three women: Fergus (David Morrissey) wants to find his ex-fiancée (Jane Horrocks) whom he jilted at the altar eight years ago; Frankie (Craig Ferguson) still lives with his ex-wife but has his heart set on Eleanor (Olivia Williams); and Eddie is an ex-con ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 565 members
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  • The Sixth Sense - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Haley Joel Osment,  Toni Collette
    Director: M. Night Shyamalan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is a successful child psychologist who is shaken by the sudden reappearance and suicide of a former patient. Months later Crowe encounters Cole Sear (Osment), a troubled young boy who bears a similarity to his earlier patient. Dr. Crowe must try to save Cole, not only for ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 2,304 members
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  • 4 Dogs Playing Poker on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Olivia Williams,  George Lazenby
    Director: Paul Rachman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Best friends Julian (Balthazar Getty), Audrey (Olivia Williams), Holly (Stacy Edwards), and Kevin (Daniel London) have landed themselves in trouble. They've stolen a valuable statue but botched its delivery to the dealer, who demands that they pay him $1 million pounds compensation by the end of ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 66 members
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  • The Sixth Sense on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Haley Joel Osment,  Toni Collette
    Director: M. Night Shyamalan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In this chilling psychological thriller, eight-year-old Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: He is visited by ghosts. A helpless and reluctant channel, Cole is terrified by threatening visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. Confused by his paranormal powers, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 65,045 members
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  • Rushmore on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jason Schwartzman,  Brian Cox,  Mason Gamble
    Director: Wes Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This acclaimed comedy stars Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer, a 10th grade pupil at Rushmore Academy. When not daydreaming, Max pours all of his energy into his beloved extra-curricular activities, often to the neglect of his studies. His determination to make a name for himself is sent into ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 21,735 members
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  • The Postman on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Olivia,  Kevin Costner,  Will Patton
    Director: Kevin Costner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Kevin Costner stars in and directs this futuristic, post-apocalyptic film. In the year 2013, Earth has been ravaged by World War Three, its population fragmented into isolated communities. These groups are terrorised by General Bethlehem (Will Patton) and his army, until a wandering performer (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,355 members
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  • Jane Austin's Emma on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Guy Henry,  James Hazeldine,  Mark Strong
    Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Andrew Davies, who adapted 'Middlemarch' and 'Pride and Prejudice' for the BBC, takes on Jane Austen's 'Emma' for ITV. Kate Beckinsale stars as the eponymous heroine who is intent on finding partners for everyone - but only if she thinks they are the right coupling. Her efforts create confusion, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,225 members
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Olivia Williams facts

5 most recent films

Justin and the Knights of Valour - 3 stars
The Seventh Son - 1.0 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars
Anna Karenina - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Hyde Park on Hudson - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Sixth Sense - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Sixth Sense - 4.0 stars
An Education - 3.5 stars
An Education - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Now Is Good - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Justin and the Knights of Valour - 3 stars
The Seventh Son - 1.0 stars
Hyde Park on Hudson - 3.0 stars
Hyde Park on Hudson - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
4 Dogs Playing Poker - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Eliza Dushku - 52 times - show films
Harry Lennix - 52 times - show films
Tahmoh Penikett - 52 times - show films
Fran Kranz - 52 times - show films
Enver Gjokaj - 26 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Solomon - 12 times - show films
Joe Wright - 5 times - show films
M. Night Shyamalan - 5 times - show films
Joss Whedon - 4 times - show films
Felix Alcala - 4 times - show films