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A struggling stage actress when she was cast in the Kevin Costner epic The Postman (1997), British actress Olivia Williams survived the film's meltdown with her reputation relatively intact. The daughter of lawyers, Williams earned a degree in English at Cambridge University before studying acting for two years with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her training led to several stage roles, as well as to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London. A four-month tour of Richard III featuring Ian McKellen brought Williams to the United States, and, following a supporting role in the made-for-TV adaptation of Emma (1997), she again found herself stateside to work on The Postman. Fortunately for Williams, she rebounded from The Postman with her role as Miss Cross, the fought-over love interest of a precocious 15-year-old and an embittered millionaire in the acclaimed comedy Rushmore (1998). She could be seen the next year starring opposite Bruce Willis in the enormously successful supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense.
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Anna Karenina
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2012 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
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Hyde Park on Hudson
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2012 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
Collaborator
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2011 | |||
Hanna
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2011 | |||
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2010 | |||
The Ghost Writer
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2010 | |||
An Education
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2009 | |||
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Dollhouse: Season 01
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2009 | |||
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Broken Lines
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2008 | |||
Flashbacks of a Fool
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2008 | |||
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Damage
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2007 | |||
Miss Austen Regrets
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2007 | |||
Tara Road
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2005 | |||
Valiant
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2005 | |||
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2004 | |||
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Peter Pan
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2003 | |||
To Kill a King
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2003 | |||
Below
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2002 | |||
The Heart of Me
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2002 | |||
A Knight's Tale
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2001 | |||
Lucky Break
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2001 | |||
Mood Swingers
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2001 | |||
The Body
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2001 | |||
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2001 | |||
Born Romantic
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2000 | |||
Four Dogs Playing Poker
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2000 | |||
Jason and the Argonauts
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2000 | |||
The Sixth Sense
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1999 | |||
Rushmore
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1998 | |||
The Postman
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1997 | |||
Emma
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1996 |
