---
name: "Alison Oliver"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alison-oliver"
fi1m_id: "alison-oliver"
imdb_id: "nm2519720"
tmdb_id: 2981449
wikidata_id: "Q111976143"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 June 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T19:55:59.707968+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alison Oliver

## Identity

Alison Oliver

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alison-oliver
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alison-oliver
- **IMDb ID:** nm2519720
- **TMDB ID:** 2981449
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111976143
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Oliver, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111976143, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2519720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2981449

Actor. Born 3 June 1997 in Cork, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 June 1997, Cork, Ireland
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Emerald Fennell](https://film.one/person/emerald-fennell.md), [Jacob Elordi](https://film.one/person/jacob-elordi.md), [Margot Robbie](https://film.one/person/margot-robbie.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 68 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 5 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 2, Thriller 2, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $23m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Oliver, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111976143, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2519720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2981449

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Best Interests*](https://film.one/tv/best-interests.md) (76)
- **Disney+:** [*The Order*](https://film.one/film/the-order.md) (75)
- **HBO Max:** [*Task*](https://film.one/tv/task.md) (67)
- **Hulu:** [*Saltburn*](https://film.one/film/saltburn.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Alison Oliver

> Alison Oliver is persuasive as women who struggle to keep their discomfort private. We rate her contribution to *Saltburn*, but want the writing to give her more to do with the unease she creates.

In *Saltburn* (2023), Alison Oliver's Venetia Catton comes up from the pool with a cigarette and something she has been told not to say. Oliver makes her look accustomed to being indulged and still dissatisfied. The small breach of manners is more interesting than another display of wealth: it suggests someone who knows the rules and has grown tired of them. We rate the performance, though Emerald Fennell does not give that dissatisfaction enough purpose.

The lead role of Frances Flynn in *Conversations with Friends* (2022) came before her feature debut in *Saltburn*. The shift from a television lead to a crowded film ensemble asks for a different kind of precision. Venetia has to establish herself among people who are already making a considerable noise, and Oliver does enough to make us wish the film would spend longer with her.

Fennell gives Venetia a house that helps explain her manner. Linus Sandgren's near-square frame keeps the people a little too close, while Suzie Davies fills their rooms with dark wood and stuffed birds. Anthony B. Willis's choir and Victoria Boydell's compressed summer montage make the idleness feel grander than it deserves. We laughed at the dinner table because Rosamund Pike delivers the insults without signalling a joke. But our reservation about *Saltburn* matters here: rudeness alone cannot make its account of class convincing, and Oliver cannot supply what the writing lacks.

In *The Order* (2024), Justin Kurzel casts her as Debbie Mathews, wife to Nicholas Hoult's Robert Jay Mathews, and places them at the breakfast table. That domestic setting helps make Hoult's calm delivery frightening; Oliver contributes to the effect, though the part gives us less to judge than Venetia. The crime series *Task* (2025) casts her as Lizzie Stover. Its family troubles are worth caring about, but the investigation takes too long to gather pace; our reservations concern the storytelling rather than anything we can fairly lay at Oliver's door.

Playing Isabella Linton in *Wuthering Heights* (2026) brings her back to Fennell, a collaboration worth following without assuming that the director's excesses always serve the actor. We would welcome more leading parts before deciding how much of Oliver's restraint is her choice and how much is what these smaller roles permit. For Oliver, start with *Saltburn*; keep expectations of its satire modest.

## Biography

Alison Oliver is an Irish actress. She was born on 3 June 1997 in Ballintemple, Cork, and trained at The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin.

She is known for her role as Frances Flynn in the BBC Three and Hulu series *Conversations with Friends* (2022). Oliver made her feature film debut as Venetia Catton in *Saltburn* (2023) and appeared as Debbie Mathews in *The Order* (2024). She plays Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stover in the HBO series *Task* (2025).

Her stage work includes the London debut in *Women, Beware the Devil* at the Almeida Theatre in 2023 and a role in *Dancing at Lughnasa* at the National Theatre.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, radiotimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Task* (2025), Fi1m 67, as Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stover — [page](https://film.one/tv/task.md)
- *The Order* (2024), Fi1m 75, as Debbie Mathews — [page](https://film.one/film/the-order.md)
- *Best Interests* (2023), Fi1m 76, as Katie — [page](https://film.one/tv/best-interests.md)
- *Saltburn* (2023), Fi1m 60, as Venetia Catton — [page](https://film.one/film/saltburn.md)
- *Conversations with Friends* (2022), Fi1m 55, as Frances Flynn — [page](https://film.one/tv/conversations-with-friends.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bump* (2026), Executive Producer
- *“Wuthering Heights”* (2026), as Isabella — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/wuthering-heights-2026.md)
- *Task* (2025), series, as Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stover — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/task.md)
- *Christy* (2025), as Chloe
- *National Theatre Live: The Other Place* (2025), as Issy
- *The Order* (2024), as Debbie Mathews — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-order.md)
- *Saltburn* (2023), as Venetia Catton — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/saltburn.md)
- *Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania* (2023), as Avril
- *Sound & Colour* (2023), as Hannah
- *Best Interests* (2023), series, as Katie — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/best-interests.md)
- *Conversations with Friends* (2022), series, as Frances Flynn — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/tv/conversations-with-friends.md)
- *Dennis*, Actor
- *Bad Bridgets*, Actor
- *To Make Ends Meat*, Actor
- *The Beacon*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Alison Oliver](https://film.one/media/person/540/gallery-689769cd8122.jpg) Alison Oliver — Image via TMDB
- ![Alison Oliver](https://film.one/media/person/540/gallery-b38fe89c30de.jpg) Alison Oliver — Image via TMDB
- ![Alison Oliver](https://film.one/media/person/540/gallery-d69f07827ae4.jpg) Alison Oliver — Image via TMDB
- ![Alison Oliver](https://film.one/media/person/540/gallery-abff09364290.jpg) Alison Oliver — Image via TMDB
- ![Alison Oliver](https://film.one/media/person/540/gallery-f2da03dae552.jpg) Alison Oliver — Image via TMDB
- ![Alison Oliver](https://film.one/media/person/540/gallery-8f783d4a73b6.jpg) Alison Oliver — Image via TMDB

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