Anna Chancellor
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).
Born: 27 April 1965
Played In
Box of Frogs
Anna
The Girlfriend
Lillith Greenway
Outrageous
Sydney Bowles Mitford
Playhouse Creatures
Mrs Betterton
My Lady Jane
Lady Frances Grey
Fifteen-Love
And Woodward
Stromboli
Diane
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Lady Dant
Compulsion
Sasha
That Dirty Black Bag
Hellen
Hotel Portofino
Lady Latchmere
The Watch
Lord Vetinari
Come Away
Eleanor Morrow
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Frances Gaunt
For Love or Money
Carol
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Henrietta
Benjamin
Tessa
Nativity Rocks!
Clara Hargreaves
The Happy Prince
Mrs. Arbuthnott
Ordeal by Innocence
Rachel Argyll
Trust
Penelope
Love of My Life
Grace
The Last Dragonslayer
Stuffco president
The Crown
Lady Rosse
This Beautiful Fantastic
Mrs Bramble
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
The Carer
Milly
New Blood
Eleanor Davies
Flowers
Aunty Viv
Testament of Youth
Mrs. Leighton
Mapp and Lucia
Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
Queen Victoria
Sardines
Elizabeth
Inside No. 9
Elizabeth
Fleming
Second Officer Monday
Private Lives
Amanda Prynne
How I Live Now
Aunt Penn
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
Narrator
Shetland
Phyllis Brennan
A Touch of Cloth
Hope Goodgirl
Pramface
We'll Take Manhattan
Lucie Clayton
Death in Paradise
Ciss Dacre
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
Hidden
Elspeth Verney
The Hour
Lix Storm
Hysteria
Mrs. Bellamy
Downton Abbey
Lady Anstruther
Critical Eye
Laura
Law & Order: UK
Christmas at the Riviera
Diane
St Trinian's
Miss Bagstock
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Irene Adler
Lewis
Judith Suskin
Breaking and Entering
Kate
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Elizabeth Doring
Suburban Shootout
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Anne Hathaway
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'
Self
The Best Man
Dana
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Questular Rontok
Roman Road
Maddy Bancroft
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lydia Horton
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Jo Kenworth
Hustle
Wendy Stanton
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Professor's Daughter (voice)
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Narrator (voice)
The Dreamers
Mother
Fortysomething
Estelle Slippery
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Nicky Bowden
What a Girl Wants
Glynnis Payne
The Real Jane Austen
Presenter / Narrator
Tipping the Velvet
Diana Lethaby
Crush
Molly Cartwright
Spooks
Juliet Shaw
The Cazalets
Diana Mackintosh
Waking the Dead
Lucy Christie
Rebus
Amanda Morrison
Longitude
Muriel Gould
Longitude
Muriel Gould
The Vice
Dr Christina Weir
Heart
Nicole Farmer
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Barbara Ritchie
FairyTale: A True Story
Peter Pan
Cold Lazarus
Anna Griffiths
Karaoke
Anna Griffiths
Silent Witness
Pride and Prejudice
Caroline Bingley
Kavanagh Q.C.
Julia Piper
Princess Caraboo
Mrs. Peake
Staggered
Carmen Svennipeg
Tom & Viv
Woman
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Henrietta
Century
Woman in Police Station
Jupiter Moon
Mercedes Page
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Barmaid
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Virginie Mesnard
Inspector Morse
Sally Smith
Casualty
Celia Morton
Brighton Storeys
My Brilliant Career
Señora Bossier