Anna Chancellor
Acting
- Born:
- 1965-04-27
- Place of birth:
- Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
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).
Known For
Filmography
My Brilliant Career
Box of Frogs
The Girlfriend
Outrageous
Playhouse Creatures
Brighton Storeys
My Lady Jane
Fifteen-Love
Rain Dogs
Stromboli
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Compulsion
That Dirty Black Bag
Hotel Portofino
The Watch
Come Away
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
The Importance of Being Oscar
For Love or Money
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Benjamin
Nativity Rocks!
The Happy Prince
Ordeal by Innocence
Trust
Timewasters
Love of My Life
The Last Dragonslayer
The Crown
This Beautiful Fantastic
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
The Carer
New Blood
Flowers
Testament of Youth
Mapp and Lucia
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
Penny Dreadful
Sardines
Inside No. 9
Fleming
Private Lives
How I Live Now
Confessions of an Alien Abductee
Shetland
A Touch of Cloth
Pramface
We'll Take Manhattan
Death in Paradise
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Hidden
The Hour
Hysteria
Downton Abbey
Critical Eye
Miranda
Law & Order: UK
Christmas at the Riviera
St Trinian's
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Lewis
Breaking and Entering
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Suburban Shootout
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
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'
The Best Man
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Roman Road
Agatha Christie's Marple
Blue Dove
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Hustle
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
The Dreamers
Fortysomething
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
What a Girl Wants
The Real Jane Austen
Tipping the Velvet
Crush
Spooks
The Cazalets
Waking the Dead
My Family
Rebus
Longitude
Longitude
The Vice
Heart
The Man Who Knew Too Little
FairyTale: A True Story
Cold Lazarus
Karaoke
Silent Witness
Pride and Prejudice
Kavanagh Q.C.
Princess Caraboo
Staggered
Tom & Viv
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Century
Jupiter Moon
Killing Dad
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Inspector Morse
Casualty