Olivia Colman
Sarah Caroline Sinclair CBE (born 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).
151 acting credits
Acting · 151
The Simpsons
1989
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Doctor Who
2005
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Crown
2016
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The One Show
2006
Skins
2007
The Bear
2022
Natural World
1983
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022
The Oscars
1953
Broadchurch
2013
The Night Manager
2016
Would I Lie to You?
2007
GMTV
1993
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Peep Show
2003
Heartstopper
2022
Fleabag
2016
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
Secret Invasion
2023
Wonka
2023
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
The Office
2001
Paddington in Peru
2024
Hot Fuzz
2007
Black Books
2000
Staged
2020
Les Misérables
2018
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023
The Lobster
2015
Accused
2010
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
2021
Twenty Twelve
2011
The Favourite
2018
Green Wing
2004
W1A
2014
Ron's Gone Wrong
2021
The Father
2020
Flowers
2016
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Look Around You
2002
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Watership Down
2018
The Roses
2025
That Mitchell and Webb Look
2006
Landscapers
2021
The Iron Lady
2011
Great Expectations
2023
The Secret Life of the Zoo
2016
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Rev.
2010
Love Soup
2005
Beautiful People
2008
Locke
2014
The Great War: The People's Story
2014
People Like Us
1999
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
2022
I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
Pride and Prejudice
—
Run
2013
Mothering Sunday
2021
Wicked Little Letters
2024
Jimpa
2026
The Lost Daughter
2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
The Time of Your Life
2007
The 7.39
2014
I Give It a Year
2013
Exile
2011
Eyes Down
2003
Mr. Sloane
2014
NY-LON
2004
Rescue Me
2002
Becoming You
2020
The Kumars
2014
Bruiser
2000
Empire of Light
2022
The Mitchell and Webb Situation
2001
Wicker
2026
The Robinsons
2005
The Fox
2026
Joyride
2022
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
2015
Cry Wolf
—
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion
2023
Mister Eleven
2009
Confetti
2006
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping
2025
Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard
2021
Tyrannosaur
2011
Them That Follow
2019
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave
2014
The Hoarder Next Door
2012
Cuban Fury
2014
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Swiss Toni
2003
Let's Dance
2018
The Secrets
2014
The Story of Cats
2016
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
London Road
2015
Superworm
2021
Attenborough at 90
2016
Consuming Passion
2008
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021
Grow Your Own
2007
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
Flatpack Empire
2018
Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
2014
Girl from the North Country
—
Thomas & Friends: Tinsel on the Tracks
2016
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes
2017
The Murder in Angel Lane
2013
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
2016
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee
2009
Elsinore
—
Bad Sugar
2012
Much Ado About Nothing
2005
National Theatre Live: Mosquitoes
2017
An A to Z of Paddington
2024
Hancock & Joan
2008
The Kármán Line
2014
The Time of Your Life
2007
Unexpected Item
2018
The Alternativity
2017
Thomas & Friends: Start Your Engines!
2016
Zemanovaload
2005
Nasrin
2020
Wild Bird
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David Attenborough Meets President Obama
2015
Dog Altogether
2007
The Grey Man
2007
Behind Closed Doors
2016
All The World's a Stage
2018
The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis
2016
Green Wing Special
2007
Our Queen at Ninety
2016
Earth's Natural Wonders
2015
The Super Squirrels
2018
Buried Alive
2005
See Me
2011
Kilimanjaro: The Bigger Red Nose Climb
2019
Change the Ending
2023
The Private Life of the Royal Academy
2018