Olivia Colman

Sarah Caroline Sinclair CBE (January 30, 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. Known for her comedic and dramatic roles in film and television, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Emmy Awards, three British Academy Television Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. She was acclaimed for her performance in the ITV crime-drama series Broadchurch (2013–2017), for which she received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. She played Queen Elizabeth II from 2019 to 2020 in the Netflix period-drama series The Crown, for which she received a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. For her portrayal of Anne, Queen of Great Britain in the period black-comedy film The Favourite (2018), Colman received the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received additional Academy Award nominations for her performances in The Father (2020) and The Lost Daughter (2021). Other notable film and television credits include Hot Fuzz (2007), Tyrannosaur (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Locke (2013), The Lobster (2015), Fleabag (2016-2019), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), Landscapers (2021), Empire of Light (2022), Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), Secret Invasion (2023), Wonka (2023), Wicked Little Letters (2023) and Paddington in Peru (2024).

Known For: Acting

Born: Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK, 1974-01-30

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2005	Buried Alive		0
2	2005	Zemanovaload	TV Producer	52
3	2006	Confetti	Joanna	54
4	2007	Hot Fuzz	PC Doris Thatcher	76
5	2007	I Could Never Be Your Woman	Hairdresser	59
6	2007	Dog Altogether	Anita	68
7	2008	Consuming Passion	Janet / Nurse Violetta Kiss	71
8	2009	Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee	Olivia	60
9	2011	Tyrannosaur	Hannah	73
10	2011	The Iron Lady	Carol Thatcher	64
11	2012	Hyde Park on Hudson	Queen Elizabeth	53
12	2013	I Give It a Year	Linda	55
13	2013	The Murder in Angel Lane	Susan Spencer	70
14	2013	The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot	Self	79
15	2013	The Thirteenth Tale	Margaret	65
16	2014	Cuban Fury	Sam	61
17	2014	The Kármán Line	Sarah	64
18	2014	Locke	Bethan (voice)	69
19	2014	Pudsey the Dog: The Movie	Nelly the Horse (voice)	54
20	2014	Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave: The Movie	Marion	65
21	2015	London Road	Julie	58
22	2015	The Lobster	Hotel Manager	70
23	2016	Attenborough at 90	Self	80
24	2016	The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
25	2018	The Private Life of the Royal Academy		0
26	2018	The Super Squirrels	Narrator	0
27	2019	Kilimanjaro: The Bigger Red Nose Climb	Self / Narrator	0
28	2019	Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered	Self	90
29	2021	Ron's Gone Wrong	Donka (voice)	79
30	2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	Narrator	69
31	2022	Scrooge: A Christmas Carol	Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)	68
32	2023	Wonka	Mrs. Scrubbit	71
33		Girl from the North Country	Elizabeth Laine	0
34	2021	Superworm	Narrator (voice)	65
35	2022	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish	Mama Bear (voice)	82
36	2023	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion	Self - 'Sonya Falsworth'	50
37	2024	Wicked Little Letters	Edith Swan	70
38	2024	Paddington in Peru	Reverend Mother	68
39		Wicker		0
40		Nuclear Bogeyheads	Martha	0
41	2007	Grow Your Own	Alice	66
42	2012	Bad Sugar	Joan Cauldwell	60
43	2015	Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie	Marion (voice)	63
44		The Roses	Ivy	0
45	2005	Much Ado About Nothing	Ursula	80
46	2007	The Grey Man	Linda Dodds	0
47	2007	The Time of Your Life	Amanda	100
48	2008	Hancock & Joan	Marion	49
49	2011	See Me	Miss	0
50	2015	David Attenborough Meets President Obama	Self - Narrator (voice)	78
51	2015	Earth's Natural Wonders		80
52	2016	Behind Closed Doors	narrator	35
53	2016	Our Queen at Ninety	Self - Narrator	60
54	2016	Thomas & Friends: Tinsel on the Tracks	Marion (voice)	75
55	2016	We're Going on a Bear Hunt	Mum (voice)	65
56	2017	National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes	Jenny	77
57	2017	Murder on the Orient Express	Hildegarde Schmidt	67
58	2017	The Alternativity	Narrator	68
59	2018	All The World's a Stage	The Narrator	45
60	2018	Unexpected Item	The Till (voice)	0
61	2018	The Favourite	Queen Anne	75
62	2018	Let's Dance	Segment: "Coffee to Go"	62
63	2019	Them That Follow	Hope	50
64	2020	Turtle Journey: The Crisis in Our Oceans	Mummy Turtle	76
65	2020	Nasrin	Narrator	100
66	2020	The Father	Anne	81
67	2020	Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas	Fairy Godmother	66
68	2021	Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day	Self	80
69	2021	Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall		75
70	2021	Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel	Self	70
71	2021	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	PAL (voice)	79
72	2021	Mothering Sunday	Mrs Clarrie Niven	54
73	2021	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso	65
74	2022	Joyride	Joy	59
75	2022	Empire of Light	Hilary	67
76	2023	Change the Ending	Narrator	0
77	2024	An A to Z of Paddington	Self	0
78	2025	Jimpa	Hannah	0
79		National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes	Jenny	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
2	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
3	1989	The Simpsons	Lily (voice)	80
4	1993	GMTV	Self	56
5	1997	Midsomer Murders	Bernice	75
6	1999	People Like Us		79
7	2000	Bruiser		67
8	2000	Black Books	Tanya	81
9	2001	The Office	Helena	78
10	2001	The Mitchell and Webb Situation		78
11	2001	The Mitchell and Webb Situation	Various	78
12	2002	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway	Self	60
13	2002	Look Around You	Pam Bachelor	81
14	2003	Swiss Toni		70
15	2003	Peep Show	Sophie Chapman	80
16	2004	Murder in Suburbia		72
17	2004	NY-LON		58
18	2004	Green Wing	Harriet Schulenburg	80
19	2004	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	67
20	2005	Doctor Who	Mother	75
21	2005	The Robinsons		60
22	2005	Love Soup	Penny	80
23	2005	ShakespeaRe-Told	Ursula	75
24	2006	That Mitchell and Webb Look	Various Characters	77
25	2007	Skins	Gina	82
26	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self - Guest	72
27	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
28	2007	Would I Lie to You?	Self	77
29	2007	The Time of Your Life	Amanda	70
30	2008	Beautiful People	Debbie Doonan	73
31	2009	Mister Eleven	Beth	57
32	2010	Rev.	Alex	73
33	2010	Accused	Sue Brown	81
34	2011	Twenty Twelve	Sally Owen	73
35	2011	Exile		74
36	2012	Honest Trailers	Mrs. Scrubbit (archive footage)	64
37	2012	Honest Trailers	Sonya Falsworth (archive footage)	64
38	2012	The Hoarder Next Door	Self - Narrator	70
39	2013	Broadchurch	DS Ellie Miller	79
40	2013	Run	Carol	71
41	2014	The 7.39	Maggie Matthews	67
42	2014	The Kumars	Self	50
43	2014	Duck Quacks Don't Echo		57
44	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		58
45	2014	W1A	Sally Owen	78
46	2014	Mr. Sloane	Janet Sloane	72
47	2014	The Great War: The People's Story	Narrator	61
48	2014	The Secrets	Pippa	55
49	2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self - Guest	54
50	2015	Earth's Natural Wonders		70
51	2016	The Secret Life of the Zoo	Narrator	62
52	2016	The Night Manager	Angela Burr	78
53	2016	The Story of Cats	Narrator (voice)	82
54	2016	Flowers	Deborah Flowers	72
55	2016	Fleabag	Godmother	83
56	2016	The Crown	Queen Elizabeth II	82
57	2018	Flatpack Empire	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
58	2018	Watership Down	Strawberry (voice)	68
59	2018	Les Misérables	Madame Thénardier	73
60	2020	Staged	Olivia	79
61	2020	Becoming You	Narrator	70
62	2021	Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard	Voiceover	47
63	2021	Landscapers	Susan Edwards	67
64	2022	Heartstopper	Sarah Nelson	86
65	2022	The Bear	Chef Terry	82
66	2023	Great Expectations	Miss Havisham	66
67	2023	Secret Invasion	Sonya Falsworth	67