Olivia plays the future Queen Consort (Pictures: Getty)
Olivia Williams is set to make her Crown debut in the highly-anticipated upcoming series five as Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Olivia takes over from Emerald Fennell, who played the future Queen Consort in earlier seasons.
As the Netflix series edges closer to the present day of 2022, season five focuses on the 1990s and sees the third set of performers take on the roles of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip.
Imelda Staunton takes over from Olivia Coleman, alongside Sir Jonathan Pryce, as they step into the shoes of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April 2021.
Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki are also new as the then Prince Charles and his soon-to-be ex-wife Princess Diana, with Lesley Manville appearing as the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret.
The series will follow the breakdown of Charles and Diana’s marriage, as well as feature scandalous moments like Charles and Camilla’s ‘tampon-gate’.
Olivia makes her debut as Camilla Parker Bowles in season five alongside Dominic West’s Prince Charles (Picture: PA)
Who is Olivia Williams?
The British actress, 54, was born in July 1968 and studied drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Olivia married actor and playwright Rhashan Stone in 2003, with whom she shares two daughters.
In 2018, Olivia was diagnosed with vipoma (a rare endocrine tumor), and after treatment became an ambassador for Pancreatic Cancer UK.
Olivia is married to actor Rhashan Stone (Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
What other movies and TV shows has she been in?
Olivia’s first prominent role was as Jane Fairfax in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma.
She’s starred in films The Postman, Rushmore, The Sixth Sense, and Peter Pan.
The actress played Jane Fairfax in Jane Austen’s Emma (Picture: Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
Olivia has also won acclaim for her performance in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer.
She’s also won a British Independent Film Award for best actress in 2009 film An Education.
She played Emily Silk on sci-fi series Counterpart between 2017 to 2019.
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Ahead of her appearance in The Crown, Olivia insisted the royal family ‘shouldn’t fear’ what’s to be shown on screen.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she said: ‘I think what’s very exciting about this season and the show that has had this amount of space to mature is that [showrunner] Peter’s now writing standalone episodes and he writes an episode that’s about divorce in almost a philosophical way; how divorce effects a couple who aren’t in the public eye.
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‘I don’t think it’s something the Palace should be frightened of because he is very careful to always turn these events back to how they affect the crown.
‘The series is called The Crown, not Charles, Diana, or the Queen. It’s about the crown and so I think it’s both interesting and philosophical and relevant to that.’
The Crown season five launches on Netflix on Wednesday, November 9.
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Olivia takes over from Emerald Fennell.
