Olivia Williams, DYK Fact #292

Did you know? Olivia Williams (1968– ) starred as Jane Fairfax in the 1996 TV adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma in which Kate Beckinsale played the role of the stuck-up heroine.

Did you know? She also starred (with Kevin Costner and Will Patton) in the film The Postman (1997) – in which she appears nude in one scene.

Did you know? In the Emma TV adaptation, Frank Churchill was played by Raymond Coulthard.

Did you know? In that TV adaptation, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence, the chatty Miss Bates was played by Prunella Scales – the actress renowned for her role as Sybil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers.

Did you know? Kevin Costner supports Arsenal.

Did you know? He once took a chopper to Villa Park to watch a league match between Aston Villa and the Gunners.

Did you know? The postman character played by Kevin Costner has no name. I just bought the film on DVD (had to go all the way to Virgin Megastore in Piccadilly Circus to find it) and now I am terribly disappointed: only one nude scene, lasting less than 5 minutes, in the whole three-hour movie?! And not full frontal either!

Did you know? That is why it has been rated 15 rather than 18 by the BBFC.

Three hours?! That’s almost as bad as Gone with the Wind!

But the music is lovely – that you’ll have to give them credit for.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/george.law7/ThePostman.wma

Did you know? This thread is about Olivia Williams, not The Postman. Here are some more pics of Olivia Williams as Jane Fairfax in Emma.

Here is Olivia Williams as Abby in The Postman.

I wonder why I hadn’t seen this before: an “Olivia Williams showreel” on YouTube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lZvn8P8TqhE

I recognize scenes from The Postman in that showreel. They open with the part where the psychopathic General Bethlehem kills Abby’s husband Michael in cold blood.

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I recognize Antonio Banderas in The Body in that showreel.

This is the steamy scene in The Postman – made even more steamy by being dubbed in French.

Three hours?! That’s almost as bad as Gone with the Wind!

[en] Did you know? Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse (1991) is almost four hours long! [/en]

Did you know? One of the actresses in La Belle noiseuse, Jane Birkin, is the daughter of Judy Campbell.

For the second time in this thread, we are going off topic.

Here: http://z8.invisionfree.com/DYK/index.php?showtopic=410

Now go and talk about Jane Birkin there, and stick to Olivia Williams in this thread!

Hooray! Someone at last has uploaded clips of the 1996 Emma adaptation starring Olivia Williams as Jane Fairfax on YouTube!

Did you know? Olivia Williams played the role of Mrs Darling in the P.J. Hogan film Peter Pan (2003).

Did you know? Yesterday (July 26) was Olivia Williams’s birthday.

Did you know? Olivia Williams starred as Ruth Lang, wife of a former British Prime Minister, in The Ghost (2010). I'm watching (and getting gripped by) this Roman Polanski film on Film4 right now.