Olivia Colman

Olivia can be seen in the Marvel’s action series Secret Invasion alongside Kingsley Ben-Adir, Emilia Clarke and Samuel L. Jackson as well as Paul King’s Wonka alongside Timothée Chalamet and Sally Hawkins.

She starred in Sam Mendes’ film, Empire of Light, opposite Michael Ward. It is the first solo original screenplay written by Mendes and was nominated for Best British Film at the BAFTAS 2023.

Olivia Colman is seen in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, opposite Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Peter Saarsgard.  For this role, Olivia received nominations for an Academy Award^®, Golden Globe^®, SAG Award^® and Critics Choice Award, and won the Gotham Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Performance in 2021.

Olivia starred opposite David Thewlis in the HBO/SKY limited series, Landscapers. The series, created and written by screenwriter Ed Sinclair.

Also in 2021, Olivia won an Emmy^® Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in A Drama Series for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in Season 4 of the critically acclaimed Netflix Original series, The Crown, opposite Tobias Menzies and Helena Bonham Carter. This is a reprisal of her role from Season 3, for which she won a Golden Globe^® Award in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Television Series in 2019. Across both seasons, she also received nominations for a BAFTA, SAG and Critics Choice Awards.

Most notably, Olivia won the 2019 Academy Award^® in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s critically acclaimed The Favourite, opposite Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. The same year she also won the Golden Globe^® for the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy); the BAFTA award in the category of Best Leading Actress; British Independent Film Award in the category of Best Actress, the Critics’ Choice award in the category Best Actress in a Comedy; and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 2018 Venice Film Festival.  It marked her second collaboration with Lanthimos following her role in his critically acclaimed, dystopian romantic comedy, The Lobster, for which Olivia received a British Independent Film Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress, and a nomination for an Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Comedy Performance. Olivia was also nominated for the 2021 Academy Award^®, Golden Globe^®, SAG and Critics Choice Award for her acclaimed performance in Florian Zeller’s The Father, a feature film adaptation of Zeller’s own award-winning stage play of the same name.

On television, Olivia was previously seen in the BBC/Amazon’s award-winning Fleabag in her role as ‘Godmother’ for which she garnered an Emmy^® nomination in 2019 for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the final season of the series and previously, a Television BAFTA nomination in the category of Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme in 2017.

Olivia has been awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to drama, and a BFI Fellowship.