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

  1. 2026Box of Frogs25mAnna
  2. 2026My Brilliant Career1 seasonMrs. Bossier
  3. 2025Brighton Storeys
  4. 2025Playhouse Creatures1h 48mMrs Betterton
  5. 2025Outrageous1 seasonSydney Bowles Mitford
  6. 2024My Lady Jane1 seasonLady Frances Grey
  7. 2023Fifteen-Love1 seasonAnd Woodward
  8. 2022Compulsion1 seasonSasha
  9. 2022Stromboli1h 26mDiane
  10. 2022Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris1h 56mLady Dant
  11. 2022That Dirty Black Bag1 seasonHellen
  12. 2020Come Away1h 34mEleanor Morrow
  13. 2019The Importance of Being Oscar1h 24mLady Bracknell
  14. 2019For Love or Money1h 35mCarol
  15. 2019Benjamin1h 25mTessa
  16. 2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding14mHenrietta
  17. 2018Nativity Rocks!1h 40mClara Hargreaves
  18. 2018Ordeal by Innocence1 seasonRachel Argyll
  19. 2018Trust1 seasonPenelope
  20. 2018The Happy Prince1h 41mMrs. Arbuthnott
  21. 2017Love of My Life1h 46mGrace
  22. 2016National Theatre Live: The Seagull2h 30mIrina Nikolaevna Arkadina
  23. 2016The Carer1h 29mMilly
  24. 2016New Blood1 seasonEleanor Davies
  25. 2016This Beautiful Fantastic1h 40mMrs Bramble
  26. 2015Testament of Youth2h 9mMrs. Leighton
  27. 2014Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled1h 58mQueen Victoria
  28. 2014Mapp and Lucia1 seasonEmmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
  29. 2014Fleming1 seasonSecond Officer Monday
  30. 2014Sardines30mElizabeth
  31. 2013Private Lives1h 53mAmanda Prynne
  32. 2013Confessions of an Alien Abductee50mNarrator
  33. 2013How I Live Now1h 41mAunt Penn
  34. 2012We'll Take Manhattan1h 30mLucie Clayton
  35. 2011Hidden1 seasonElspeth Verney
  36. 2011The Hour2 seasonsLix Storm
  37. 2011Hysteria1h 40mMrs. Bellamy
  38. 2010Critical Eye12mLaura
  39. 2007Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars1 seasonIrene Adler
  40. 2007Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars57mIrene Adler
  41. 2007Christmas at the Riviera1h 34mDiane
  42. 2007St Trinian's1h 41mMiss Bagstock
  43. 2006Suburban Shootout2 seasons
  44. 2006The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton1h 25mElizabeth Doring
  45. 2006Breaking and Entering2h 9mKate
  46. 2005A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets1h 26mAnne Hathaway
  47. 2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy1h 49mQuestular Rontok
  48. 2005The Best Man1h 36mDana
  49. 2005Don'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
  50. 2004Roman Road1h 31mMaddy Bancroft
  51. 2004Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London1h 40mJo Kenworth
  52. 2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments3h 24mNarrator (voice)
  53. 2003Fortysomething1 seasonEstelle Slippery
  54. 2003Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie1h 15mNicky Bowden
  55. 2003The Dreamers1h 55mMother
  56. 2003What a Girl Wants1h 45mGlynnis Payne
  57. 2003Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose24mProfessor's Daughter (voice)
  58. 2002The Real Jane Austen1hPresenter / Narrator
  59. 2002Crush1h 52mMolly Cartwright
  60. 2001The Cazalets1 seasonDiana Mackintosh
  61. 2000Longitude1 seasonMuriel Gould
  62. 2000Longitude3h 18mMuriel Gould
  63. 1999Heart1h 25mNicole Farmer
  64. 1997The Man Who Knew Too Little1h 34mBarbara Ritchie
  65. 1997FairyTale: A True Story1h 39mPeter Pan
  66. 1996Karaoke1 seasonAnna Griffiths
  67. 1995Pride and Prejudice1 seasonCaroline Bingley
  68. 1994Staggered1h 35mCarmen Svennipeg
  69. 1994Four Weddings and a Funeral1h 57mHenrietta
  70. 1994Tom & Viv1h 55mWoman
  71. 1994Princess Caraboo1h 37mMrs. Peake
  72. 1993Century1h 52mWoman in Police Station
  73. 1990Jupiter Moon1 seasonMercedes Page
  74. 1989Killing Dad1h 33mBarmaid