
Anna Chancellor
Biography
Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress who has appeared widely on TV, film and in the theatre. She received a nomination for BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lix Storm in The Hour (2011–2012), and has twice been nominated for Olivier Awards, in 1997 for her performances in Stanley at the National Theatre, and again in 2014 for Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre. She was also nominated for an award at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 2007 and for one at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in 2013.
On television, she is also known for her roles in the ITV series Kavanagh QC (1995-1997) and Grantchester (2016); the BBC series Pride and Prejudice (1995), Tipping the Velvet (2002), Spooks (2005-2007), Pramface (2012–2014), Ordeal by Innocence (2018) and Rain Dogs (2023); the Channel 5 series Suburban Shootout (2006–2007); the Netflix series The Crown (2017); the Epix series Pennyworth (2019–2021); and the BritBox series Hotel Portofino (2022).
Her films include Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and How I Live Now (2013).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The Girlfriend as Lilith
2025Outrageous as Sydney Bowles Mitford
2025Playhouse Creatures as Mrs Betterton
2024My Lady Jane as Lady Frances Grey
2023Fifteen-Love as And Woodward
2022Stromboli as Diane
2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Lady Dant
2022Compulsion as Sasha
2022That Dirty Black Bag as Hellen
2022Hotel Portofino as Lady Latchmere
2021The Watch as Lord Vetinari
2020Come Away as Eleanor Morrow
2019Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler as Frances Gaunt
2019Benjamin as Tessa
2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding as Henrietta
2019For Love or Money as Carol
2018Nativity Rocks! as Clara Hargreaves
2018The Happy Prince as Mrs. Arbuthnott
2018Ordeal by Innocence as Rachel Argyll
2018Trust as Penelope
2017Love of My Life as Grace
2016The Last Dragonslayer as Stuffco president
2016The Crown as Lady Rosse
2016This Beautiful Fantastic as Mrs Bramble
2016National Theatre Live: The Seagull as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
2016The Carer as Milly
2016New Blood as Eleanor Davies
2016Flowers as Aunty Viv
2015Testament of Youth as Mrs. Leighton
2014Mapp and Lucia as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
2014Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled as Queen Victoria
2014Inside No. 9 as Elizabeth
2014Fleming as Second Officer Monday
2013Private Lives as Amanda Prynne
2013How I Live Now as Aunt Penn
2013Confessions Of An Alien Abductee as Narrator
2013Shetland as Phyllis Brennan
2012A Touch of Cloth as Hope Goodgirl
2012Pramface
2012We'll Take Manhattan as Lucie Clayton
2011Death in Paradise as Ciss Dacre
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2011Hidden as Elspeth Verney
2011The Hour as Lix Storm
2011Hysteria as Mrs. Bellamy
2010Downton Abbey as Lady Anstruther
2010Critical Eye as Laura
2009Law & Order: UK
2007Christmas at the Riviera as Diane
2007St Trinian's as Miss Bagstock
2007Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Irene Adler
2007Lewis as Judith Suskin
2006Breaking and Entering as Kate
2006The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton as Elizabeth Doring
2006Suburban Shootout
2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as Anne Hathaway
2005Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005The Best Man as Dana
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Questular Rontok
2004Roman Road as Maddy Bancroft
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Lydia Horton
2004Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as Jo Kenworth
2004Hustle as Wendy Stanton
2003Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose as Professor's Daughter (voice)
2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments as Narrator (voice)
2003The Dreamers as Mother
2003Fortysomething as Estelle Slippery
2003Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie as Nicky Bowden
2003What a Girl Wants as Glynnis Payne
2002The Real Jane Austen as Presenter / Narrator
2002Tipping the Velvet as Diana Lethaby
2002Crush as Molly Cartwright
2002Spooks as Juliet Shaw
2001The Cazalets as Diana Mackintosh
2001Waking the Dead as Lucy Christie
2000Rebus as Amanda Morrison
2000Longitude as Muriel Gould
2000Longitude as Muriel Gould
1999The Vice as Dr. Christine Weir
1999Heart as Nicole Farmer
1997The Man Who Knew Too Little as Barbara Ritchie
1997FairyTale: A True Story as Peter Pan
1996Cold Lazarus as Anna Griffiths
1996Karaoke as Anna Griffiths
1996Silent Witness
1995Pride and Prejudice as Caroline Bingley
1995Kavanagh Q.C. as Julia Piper
1994Princess Caraboo as Mrs. Peake
1994Staggered as Carmen Svennipeg
1994Tom & Viv as Woman
1994Four Weddings and a Funeral as Henrietta
1993Century as Woman in Police Station
1990Jupiter Moon
1989Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother) as Barmaid
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Virginie Mesnard
1987Inspector Morse as Sally Smith
1986Casualty as Celia Morton
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