My Week: Olivia Williams on a crude awakening
By Olivia Williams
12:15PM BST 20 Aug 2013

In her monthly column, Olivia Williams wakes up to the inexorable disaster of fracking.

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Trevor Nunn is reviving Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre later this year.

Nunn, who directed Iain Glen and his then-wife Imogen Stubbs in the first production at the Belgrade, Coventry in 2008, is revisiting the play with actress Olivia Willams.

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My Week: Olivia Williams on a tale of two auteurs
By Olivia Williams
12:15PM BST 23 Jul 2013

In her monthly column, Olivia Williams reflects on a summer spent juggling David Cronenberg and Sir David Hare.

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Here is the trailer for The Seventh Son, which has Olivia playing a pig farmer's wife. She's not in the trailer (but Julianne Moore is), but it looks fantastical (also, everybody seems to be going for an American accent in the film).

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My Week: Who really calls the shots in Hollywood?
By Olivia Williams
12:15PM BST 25 Jun 2013

In her monthly column, Olivia Williams discovers a powerful force at work in Hollywood: the test audience.

( Both a yay and a boo. Yay (but also boo) )

Amy Acker had an interview with Dallas News and was asked about Joss' Shakespeare Brunches--

Any memorable performances?

Olivia Williams, who was on Dollhouse, did Gertrude in Hamlet and played her as tipsy the whole time. I was like, why doesn’t everyone do her like that? It’s a magical thing. Someone always brings something unexpected.

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uno. Ten, Olivia's movie where she plays an detective investigating the deaths of members of an elite DEA task force is now known as Sabotage. Previous movie titles include Breacher.

Here's an excerpt from a story in moviepilot.com (warning: the site's a little bit slow, there's some javascript involved and shiznit)

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Olivia is part of The Guest, a twelve-minute film directed by Daniel Montanarini. Together with her in the film are Betrand Lesca and Pip Torrens.

Here is the plot synopsis from the film's facebook page

A graduate, Matthieu, meets his old university lecturer for coffee. The professor invites him to a dinner party but upon arrival Matthieu ( Read more... )

With Ruairi Robinson, director of 'Last Days on Mars'

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