Anna Chancellor

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1965-04-27

Place of Birth

Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

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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Acting History

2025
The Girlfriend as Lilith
2025
Outrageous as Sydney Bowles Mitford
2025
Playhouse Creatures as Mrs Betterton
2024
My Lady Jane as Lady Frances Grey
2023
Fifteen-Love as And Woodward
2022
Stromboli as Diane
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Lady Dant
2022
Compulsion as Sasha
2022
That Dirty Black Bag as Hellen
2022
Hotel Portofino as Lady Latchmere
2021
The Watch as Lord Vetinari
2020
Come Away as Eleanor Morrow
2019
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler as Frances Gaunt
2019
Benjamin as Tessa
2019
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding as Henrietta
2019
For Love or Money as Carol
2018
Nativity Rocks! as Clara Hargreaves
2018
The Happy Prince as Mrs. Arbuthnott
2018
Ordeal by Innocence as Rachel Argyll
2018
Trust as Penelope
2017
Love of My Life as Grace
2016
The Last Dragonslayer as Stuffco president
2016
The Crown as Lady Rosse
2016
This Beautiful Fantastic as Mrs Bramble
2016
National Theatre Live: The Seagull as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
2016
The Carer as Milly
2016
New Blood as Eleanor Davies
2016
Flowers as Aunty Viv
2015
Testament of Youth as Mrs. Leighton
2014
Mapp and Lucia as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
2014
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled as Queen Victoria
2014
Inside No. 9 as Elizabeth
2014
Fleming as Second Officer Monday
2013
Private Lives as Amanda Prynne
2013
How I Live Now as Aunt Penn
2013
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee as Narrator
2013
Shetland as Phyllis Brennan
2012
A Touch of Cloth as Hope Goodgirl
2012
Pramface
2012
We'll Take Manhattan as Lucie Clayton
2011
Death in Paradise as Ciss Dacre
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2011
Hidden as Elspeth Verney
2011
The Hour as Lix Storm
2011
Hysteria as Mrs. Bellamy
2010
Downton Abbey as Lady Anstruther
2010
Critical Eye as Laura
2009
Law & Order: UK
2007
Christmas at the Riviera as Diane
2007
St Trinian's as Miss Bagstock
2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Irene Adler
2007
Lewis as Judith Suskin
2006
Breaking and Entering as Kate
2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton as Elizabeth Doring
2006
Suburban Shootout
2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as Anne Hathaway
2005
Don'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
2005
The Best Man as Dana
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Questular Rontok
2004
Roman Road as Maddy Bancroft
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Lydia Horton
2004
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as Jo Kenworth
2004
Hustle as Wendy Stanton
2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose as Professor's Daughter (voice)
2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments as Narrator (voice)
2003
The Dreamers as Mother
2003
Fortysomething as Estelle Slippery
2003
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie as Nicky Bowden
2003
What a Girl Wants as Glynnis Payne
2002
The Real Jane Austen as Presenter / Narrator
2002
Tipping the Velvet as Diana Lethaby
2002
Crush as Molly Cartwright
2002
Spooks as Juliet Shaw
2001
The Cazalets as Diana Mackintosh
2001
Waking the Dead as Lucy Christie
2000
Rebus as Amanda Morrison
2000
Longitude as Muriel Gould
2000
Longitude as Muriel Gould
1999
The Vice as Dr. Christine Weir
1999
Heart as Nicole Farmer
1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little as Barbara Ritchie
1997
FairyTale: A True Story as Peter Pan
1996
Cold Lazarus as Anna Griffiths
1996
Karaoke as Anna Griffiths
1996
Silent Witness
1995
Pride and Prejudice as Caroline Bingley
1995
Kavanagh Q.C. as Julia Piper
1994
Princess Caraboo as Mrs. Peake
1994
Staggered as Carmen Svennipeg
1994
Tom & Viv as Woman
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral as Henrietta
1993
Century as Woman in Police Station
1990
Jupiter Moon
1989
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother) as Barmaid
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Virginie Mesnard
1987
Inspector Morse as Sally Smith
1986
Casualty as Celia Morton
Brighton Storeys