Actor
Anna Chancellor
Born 27 April 1965 · Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
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).
Films and shows
- 2026
Box of Frogs25mAnna - 2026
My Brilliant Career1 seasonMrs. Bossier - 2025Brighton Storeys
- 2025
Playhouse Creatures1h 48mMrs Betterton - 2025
Outrageous1 seasonSydney Bowles Mitford - 2024
My Lady Jane1 seasonLady Frances Grey - 2023
Fifteen-Love1 seasonAnd Woodward - 2022
Compulsion1 seasonSasha - 2022
Stromboli1h 26mDiane - 2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris1h 56mLady Dant - 2022
That Dirty Black Bag1 seasonHellen - 2020
Come Away1h 34mEleanor Morrow - 2019
The Importance of Being Oscar1h 24mLady Bracknell - 2019
For Love or Money1h 35mCarol - 2019
Benjamin1h 25mTessa - 2019
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding14mHenrietta - 2018
Nativity Rocks!1h 40mClara Hargreaves - 2018
Ordeal by Innocence1 seasonRachel Argyll - 2018
Trust1 seasonPenelope - 2018
The Happy Prince1h 41mMrs. Arbuthnott - 2017
Love of My Life1h 46mGrace - 2016
National Theatre Live: The Seagull2h 30mIrina Nikolaevna Arkadina - 2016
The Carer1h 29mMilly - 2016
New Blood1 seasonEleanor Davies - 2016
This Beautiful Fantastic1h 40mMrs Bramble - 2015
Testament of Youth2h 9mMrs. Leighton - 2014
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled1h 58mQueen Victoria - 2014
Mapp and Lucia1 seasonEmmeline 'Lucia' Lucas - 2014
Fleming1 seasonSecond Officer Monday - 2014
Sardines30mElizabeth - 2013
Private Lives1h 53mAmanda Prynne - 2013
Confessions of an Alien Abductee50mNarrator - 2013
How I Live Now1h 41mAunt Penn - 2012
We'll Take Manhattan1h 30mLucie Clayton - 2011
Hidden1 seasonElspeth Verney - 2011
The Hour2 seasonsLix Storm - 2011
Hysteria1h 40mMrs. Bellamy - 2010
Critical Eye12mLaura - 2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars1 seasonIrene Adler - 2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars57mIrene Adler - 2007
Christmas at the Riviera1h 34mDiane - 2007
St Trinian's1h 41mMiss Bagstock - 2006
Suburban Shootout2 seasons - 2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton1h 25mElizabeth Doring - 2006
Breaking and Entering2h 9mKate - 2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets1h 26mAnne Hathaway - 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy1h 49mQuestular Rontok - 2005
The Best Man1h 36mDana - 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'1h 8mSelf - 2004
Roman Road1h 31mMaddy Bancroft - 2004
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London1h 40mJo Kenworth - 2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments3h 24mNarrator (voice) - 2003
Fortysomething1 seasonEstelle Slippery - 2003
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie1h 15mNicky Bowden - 2003
The Dreamers1h 55mMother - 2003
What a Girl Wants1h 45mGlynnis Payne - 2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose24mProfessor's Daughter (voice) - 2002
The Real Jane Austen1hPresenter / Narrator - 2002
Crush1h 52mMolly Cartwright - 2001
The Cazalets1 seasonDiana Mackintosh - 2000
Longitude1 seasonMuriel Gould - 2000
Longitude3h 18mMuriel Gould - 1999
Heart1h 25mNicole Farmer - 1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little1h 34mBarbara Ritchie - 1997
FairyTale: A True Story1h 39mPeter Pan - 1996
Karaoke1 seasonAnna Griffiths - 1995
Pride and Prejudice1 seasonCaroline Bingley - 1994
Staggered1h 35mCarmen Svennipeg - 1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral1h 57mHenrietta - 1994
Tom & Viv1h 55mWoman - 1994
Princess Caraboo1h 37mMrs. Peake - 1993
Century1h 52mWoman in Police Station - 1990
Jupiter Moon1 seasonMercedes Page - 1989
Killing Dad1h 33mBarmaid
