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).
101 acting credits
Acting · 101
Death in Paradise
2011
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Crown
2016
Casualty
1986
Silent Witness
1996
Downton Abbey
2010
Spooks
2002
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Shetland
2013
Waking the Dead
2001
Hustle
2004
Inspector Morse
1987
Inside No. 9
2014
Lewis
2007
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019
The Dreamers
2003
Law & Order: UK
2009
Pride and Prejudice
1995
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Trust
2018
The Vice
1999
Rebus
2000
The Girlfriend
2025
The Hour
2011
My Lady Jane
2024
Jupiter Moon
1990
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Ordeal by Innocence
2018
That Dirty Black Bag
2022
Hotel Portofino
2022
Longitude
2000
Flowers
2016
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
A Touch of Cloth
2012
St Trinian's
2007
Tipping the Velvet
2002
Fifteen-Love
2023
Karaoke
1996
Fleming
2014
What a Girl Wants
2003
The Watch
2021
Cold Lazarus
1996
Outrageous
2025
The Cazalets
2001
Suburban Shootout
2006
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
New Blood
2016
Come Away
2020
Fortysomething
2003
Hysteria
2011
Testament of Youth
2015
Hidden
2011
Pramface
2012
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
How I Live Now
2013
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
Mapp and Lucia
2014
Compulsion
2022
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'
2005
The Happy Prince
2018
Breaking and Entering
2006
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016
Longitude
2000
The Last Dragonslayer
2016
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
Princess Caraboo
1994
Benjamin
2019
For Love or Money
2019
The Best Man
2005
Tom & Viv
1994
The Carer
2016
Heart
1999
Box of Frogs
2026
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Crush
2002
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
Staggered
1994
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003
The Real Jane Austen
2002
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
Stromboli
2022
Nativity Rocks!
2018
Century
1993
My Brilliant Career
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We'll Take Manhattan
2012
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
2013
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016
Private Lives
2013
Brighton Storeys
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The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006
Roman Road
2004
Love of My Life
2017
Critical Eye
2010
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014
Sardines
2014
Playhouse Creatures
2025