Olivia Williams says the constant scrutiny older actresses in Hollywood face over their appearance and the pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery can take its toll.

The 58-year-old actress admitted that female stars feel the expectations to maintain a youthful look by going under the knife, but discussions are often had in private.

Olivia told the New York Post's Page Six: "You feel the pressure, but that stuff is usually said behind closed doors.

"Every working day begins with an hour in front of a mirror; you have to sit and look at yourself in the makeup chair, and if you can't deal with that, then you're headed to the surgeon."

The Crown alum also shared how the menopause has taken its toll on her memory.

She said: "I forgot someone's name, which is a recognised condition in my world. Can't remember names, used to be quite good and now I can't."

The Good Daughter entertainer was diagnosed with VIPoma, a rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour, in 2018, but had been complaining to medics for four years before that, while doctors initially thought she had lupus, irritable bowel syndrome or was perimenopausal.

And Olivia says she will "never" be cancer-free.

In April 2025, she told The Times: "I go in [for scans] like a puppy with this optimistic, bright face and then they give me bad news and it's like, oh my God, I fell for it again.

"They've found new metastases pretty well either just before Christmas or in the middle of a summer holiday. Then, for three years in a row, they started appearing too close to major blood vessels to zap.

"So there was a period when we were just sitting and watching them grow, which is a horrible feeling.

"I go to a room in King's College hospital and people in hazmat suits come in with a lead box of a radioactive material, which they inject into me and I become radioactive.

"It's supposed to buy me maybe a year, maybe two or three years, of freedom from treatment. In the best-case scenario it would have made [the metastases] disappear but that didn't happen.

"If someone had f****** well diagnosed me in the four years I'd been saying I was ill, when they told me I was menopausal or had irritable bowel syndrome or [was] crazy - I used that word advisedly because one doctor referred me for a psychiatric assessment - then one operation possibly could have cleared the whole thing and I could describe myself as cancer-free, which I cannot now ever be!"