Anna Chancellor
Acting • Born 1965-04-27
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).
Filmography
100 credits
The Dreamers
Movie • 2003
Mother
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Movie • 1994
Henrietta
St Trinian's
Movie • 2007
Miss Bagstock
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Movie • 1989
Barmaid
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie • 2005
Questular Rontok
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Movie • 1997
Barbara Ritchie
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Movie • 2003
Nicky Bowden
FairyTale: A True Story
Movie • 1997
Peter Pan
Crush
Movie • 2002
Molly Cartwright
Staggered
Movie • 1994
Carmen Svennipeg
Christmas at the Riviera
Movie • 2007
Diane
How I Live Now
Movie • 2013
Aunt Penn
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Movie • 2005
Anne Hathaway
The Real Jane Austen
Movie • 2002
Presenter / Narrator
Private Lives
Movie • 2013
Amanda Prynne
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Movie • 2003
Professor's Daughter (voice)
Testament of Youth
Movie • 2015
Mrs. Leighton
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Movie • 2016
Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
Stromboli
Movie • 2022
Diane
This Beautiful Fantastic
Movie • 2016
Mrs Bramble
What a Girl Wants
Movie • 2003
Glynnis Payne
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Movie • 2007
Irene Adler
The Best Man
Movie • 2005
Dana
Breaking and Entering
Movie • 2006
Kate
Century
Movie • 1993
Woman in Police Station
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Movie • 2004
Jo Kenworth
Brighton Storeys
Movie
The Carer
Movie • 2016
Milly
We'll Take Manhattan
Movie • 2012
Lucie Clayton
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Movie • 2006
Elizabeth Doring
Roman Road
Movie • 2004
Maddy Bancroft
Longitude
Movie • 2000
Muriel Gould
Love of My Life
Movie • 2017
Grace
The Last Dragonslayer
Movie • 2016
Stuffco president
Heart
Movie • 1999
Nicole Farmer
The Happy Prince
Movie • 2018
Mrs. Arbuthnott
Tom & Viv
Movie • 1994
Woman
Hysteria
Movie • 2011
Mrs. Bellamy
Critical Eye
Movie • 2010
Laura
For Love or Money
Movie • 2019
Carol
Nativity Rocks!
Movie • 2018
Clara Hargreaves
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Movie • 2019
Henrietta
Come Away
Movie • 2020
Eleanor Morrow
Benjamin
Movie • 2019
Tessa
Princess Caraboo
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Peake
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Movie • 2022
Lady Dant
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
Movie • 2014
Queen Victoria
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'
Movie • 2005
Self
Playhouse Creatures
Movie • 2025
Mrs Betterton
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Sardines
Movie • 2014
Elizabeth
Pride and Prejudice
TV • 1995
Caroline Bingley
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Sally Smith
Spooks
TV • 2002
Juliet Shaw
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Lydia Horton
Law & Order: UK
TV • 2009
Suburban Shootout
TV • 2006
Fortysomething
TV • 2003
Estelle Slippery
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Virginie Mesnard
The Vice
TV • 1999
Dr. Christine Weir
Pramface
TV • 2012
The Cazalets
TV • 2001
Diana Mackintosh
The Hour
TV • 2011
Lix Storm
Hidden
TV • 2011
Elspeth Verney
Fleming
TV • 2014
Second Officer Monday
Rebus
TV • 2000
Amanda Morrison
A Touch of Cloth
TV • 2012
Hope Goodgirl
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Elizabeth
Hustle
TV • 2004
Wendy Stanton
New Blood
TV • 2016
Eleanor Davies
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Lucy Christie
Hotel Portofino
TV • 2022
Lady Latchmere
Casualty
TV • 1986
Celia Morton
Mapp and Lucia
TV • 2014
Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
Downton Abbey
TV • 2010
Lady Anstruther
Compulsion
TV • 2022
Sasha
Ordeal by Innocence
TV • 2018
Rachel Argyll
The Crown
TV • 2016
Lady Rosse
That Dirty Black Bag
TV • 2022
Hellen
Trust
TV • 2018
Penelope
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
Lewis
TV • 2007
Judith Suskin
Longitude
TV • 2000
Muriel Gould
Shetland
TV • 2013
Phyllis Brennan
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Ciss Dacre
Fifteen-Love
TV • 2023
And Woodward
My Lady Jane
TV • 2024
Lady Frances Grey
The Watch
TV • 2021
Lord Vetinari
Outrageous
TV • 2025
Sydney Bowles Mitford
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
TV • 2019
Frances Gaunt
Flowers
TV • 2016
Aunty Viv
Tipping the Velvet
TV • 2002
Diana Lethaby
Kavanagh Q.C.
TV • 1995
Julia Piper
My Brilliant Career
TV • 2026
Señora Bossier
The Girlfriend
TV • 2025
Lillith Greenway
Karaoke
TV • 1996
Anna Griffiths
Cold Lazarus
TV • 1996
Anna Griffiths
Jupiter Moon
TV • 1990
Mercedes Page