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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 27, 1965
Place of Birth
Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
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Anna Chancellor
1.8 Popularity
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
7.1
Lilith
The Girlfriend
2025
7.7
Sydney Bowles Mitford
Outrageous
2025
0.0
Mrs Betterton
Playhouse Creatures
2025
7.4
Lady Frances Grey
My Lady Jane
2024
5.1
And Woodward
Fifteen-Love
2023
5.2
Diane
Stromboli
2022
7.3
Lady Dant
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
5.8
Sasha
Compulsion
2022
7.0
Hellen
That Dirty Black Bag
2022
6.7
Lady Latchmere
Hotel Portofino
2022
Credits
The Girlfriend
as Lilith
2025
7.1
Outrageous
as Sydney Bowles Mitford
2025
7.7
Playhouse Creatures
as Mrs Betterton
2025
0.0
My Lady Jane
as Lady Frances Grey
2024
7.4
Fifteen-Love
as And Woodward
2023
5.1
Stromboli
as Diane
2022
5.2
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
as Lady Dant
2022
7.3
Compulsion
as Sasha
2022
5.8
That Dirty Black Bag
as Hellen
2022
7.0
Hotel Portofino
as Lady Latchmere
2022
6.7
The Watch
as Lord Vetinari
2021
5.3
Come Away
as Eleanor Morrow
2020
5.8
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
as Frances Gaunt
2019
7.9
Benjamin
as Tessa
2019
6.2
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Henrietta
2019
7.0
For Love or Money
as Carol
2019
5.4
Nativity Rocks!
as Clara Hargreaves
2018
4.0
The Happy Prince
as Mrs. Arbuthnott
2018
6.3
Ordeal by Innocence
as Rachel Argyll
2018
6.9
Trust
as Penelope
2018
7.0
Love of My Life
as Grace
2017
5.0
The Last Dragonslayer
as Stuffco president
2016
5.9
The Crown
as Lady Rosse
2016
8.2
This Beautiful Fantastic
as Mrs Bramble
2016
7.1
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
2016
0.0
The Carer
as Milly
2016
6.6
New Blood
as Eleanor Davies
2016
7.0
Flowers
as Aunty Viv
2016
7.3
Testament of Youth
as Mrs. Leighton
2015
7.3
Mapp and Lucia
as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
2014
6.3
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
as Queen Victoria
2014
10.0
Inside No. 9
as Elizabeth
2014
8.0
Fleming
as Second Officer Monday
2014
6.8
Private Lives
as Amanda Prynne
2013
10.0
How I Live Now
as Aunt Penn
2013
6.6
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
as Narrator
2013
4.6
Shetland
as Phyllis Brennan
2013
7.5
A Touch of Cloth
as Hope Goodgirl
2012
7.2
Pramface
2012
7.3
We'll Take Manhattan
as Lucie Clayton
2012
5.5
Death in Paradise
as Ciss Dacre
2011
7.5
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Hidden
as Elspeth Verney
2011
6.2
The Hour
as Lix Storm
2011
7.5
Hysteria
as Mrs. Bellamy
2011
6.7
Downton Abbey
as Lady Anstruther
2010
8.1
Critical Eye
as Laura
2010
0.0
Law & Order: UK
2009
7.1
Christmas at the Riviera
as Diane
2007
3.8
St Trinian's
as Miss Bagstock
2007
5.9
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
as Irene Adler
2007
6.8
Lewis
as Judith Suskin
2007
7.6
Breaking and Entering
as Kate
2006
6.0
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
as Elizabeth Doring
2006
6.2
Suburban Shootout
2006
3.3
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as Anne Hathaway
2005
4.8
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
0.0
The Best Man
as Dana
2005
5.3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Questular Rontok
2005
6.7
Roman Road
as Maddy Bancroft
2004
0.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lydia Horton
2004
7.8
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
as Jo Kenworth
2004
5.6
Hustle
as Wendy Stanton
2004
7.7
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Professor's Daughter (voice)
2003
0.0
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
as Narrator (voice)
2003
3.5
The Dreamers
as Mother
2003
7.2
Fortysomething
as Estelle Slippery
2003
7.5
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
as Nicky Bowden
2003
6.3
What a Girl Wants
as Glynnis Payne
2003
6.3
The Real Jane Austen
as Presenter / Narrator
2002
8.5
Tipping the Velvet
as Diana Lethaby
2002
6.8
Crush
as Molly Cartwright
2002
5.6
Spooks
as Juliet Shaw
2002
7.7
The Cazalets
as Diana Mackintosh
2001
8.5
Waking the Dead
as Lucy Christie
2001
7.2
Rebus
as Amanda Morrison
2000
6.9
Longitude
as Muriel Gould
2000
7.0
Longitude
as Muriel Gould
2000
7.4
The Vice
as Dr. Christine Weir
1999
5.3
Heart
as Nicole Farmer
1999
5.2
The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Barbara Ritchie
1997
6.3
FairyTale: A True Story
as Peter Pan
1997
6.4
Cold Lazarus
as Anna Griffiths
1996
6.8
Karaoke
as Anna Griffiths
1996
6.6
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
Pride and Prejudice
as Caroline Bingley
1995
8.2
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Julia Piper
1995
7.0
Princess Caraboo
as Mrs. Peake
1994
5.4
Staggered
as Carmen Svennipeg
1994
5.3
Tom & Viv
as Woman
1994
6.1
Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Henrietta
1994
6.8
Century
as Woman in Police Station
1993
4.9
Jupiter Moon
1990
5.2
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
as Barmaid
1989
3.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Virginie Mesnard
1989
8.2
Inspector Morse
as Sally Smith
1987
7.8
Casualty
as Celia Morton
1986
6.1
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