Anna Chancellor
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 P...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
How I Live Now
2013
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006
The Dreamers
2003
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
The Last Dragonslayer
2016
Testament of Youth
2015
Longitude
2000
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
What a Girl Wants
2003
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
Playhouse Creatures
2025
The Real Jane Austen
2002
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016
Come Away
2020
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
Hysteria
2011
Princess Caraboo
1994
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
St Trinian's
2007
The Best Man
2005
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003
Breaking and Entering
2006
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
Stromboli
2022
The Happy Prince
2018
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
Tom & Viv
1994
Private Lives
2013
Benjamin
2019
Crush
2002
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
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