Esmé Ruby Stone is the elder daughter of the British actress Olivia Williams and the actor and musician Rhashan Stone. Born in London on 6 April 2004, she is 22, and she has lived away from the attention her parents’ careers bring. Her younger sister is Roxana May Stone.
Almost everything on record about her comes through her parents. As a young child she was photographed with her mother, father and sister at a London film premiere in 2013, which stands as one of the few times she has appeared at a public event. Since then she has stayed largely out of view, without a public career of her own.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Esmé Ruby Stone |
| Born | 6 April 2004, London |
| Age | 22 |
| Mother | Olivia Williams, actress |
| Father | Rhashan Stone, actor and musician |
| Sister | Roxana May Stone (born 2007) |
| Public work | None |
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Her Parents, Olivia Williams and Rhashan Stone
Olivia Williams, born in London in 1968, is among Britain’s busiest character actors. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company, then reached film audiences in the late 1990s alongside Kevin Costner in The Postman and Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. Newer viewers know her as Camilla Parker Bowles in the last two seasons of The Crown and as Tula Harkonnen in the science fiction series Dune: Prophecy. In interviews with The Guardian and The Times across 2024 and 2025, Williams spoke about living with a rare form of pancreatic cancer and called for the disease to be caught earlier.
Rhashan Stone, Esmé’s father, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1969 and moved to England as a boy after his mother, the singer Joanne Stone, married the British songwriter Russell Stone. He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has worked steadily on British television, including Strike Back, Keeping Faith and Hollington Drive, while keeping a second career as a jazz and soul singer. He and Williams met at the Royal Shakespeare Company and married in November 2003.
Esmé’s Younger Sister, Roxana May Stone
Esmé is the older of the couple’s two daughters. Roxana May Stone arrived on 7 April 2007, almost three years to the day after her, and is now 19. She has been raised the same way, with no public role of her own. Both sisters are of mixed heritage, since Williams is a white Briton and Stone is African American.
A Family That Kept the Cameras at the Door
The fullest account of the girls’ upbringing came in a 2012 interview the couple gave to the London Evening Standard. Williams and Stone described splitting the work of parenting down the middle from the start, trading school runs and early mornings so that one of them was always at home. They also set a rule that neither would talk about film or television work in front of their daughters, saving those conversations until the girls were asleep.
That choice cost them jobs. Williams has said she turned down long theatre runs while her daughters were small so she could stay close to home. Both parents worked in a field that could easily have drawn their children into the press, and they made a point of keeping them out of it.
Where Esmé Is Today
At 22, Esmé lives in London, known to the public only through her family’s work. Two decades after Williams and Stone decided to raise their daughters away from the press, she has given no sign of stepping out on her own.
