Anna Chancellor
Acting
1965-04-27 · 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).
Filmography
My Brilliant Career
2026 · Series
Box of Frogs
2026 · Movie
The Girlfriend
2025 · Series
Outrageous
2025 · Series
Playhouse Creatures
2025 · Movie
Brighton Storeys
2025 · Movie
My Lady Jane
2024 · Series
Fifteen-Love
2023 · Series
Rain Dogs
2023 · Series
Stromboli
2022 · Movie
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022 · Movie
Compulsion
2022 · Series
That Dirty Black Bag
2022 · Series
Hotel Portofino
2022 · Series
The Watch
2021 · Series
Come Away
2020 · Movie
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019 · Series
The Importance of Being Oscar
2019 · Movie
For Love or Money
2019 · Movie
Benjamin
2019 · Movie
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019 · Movie
Nativity Rocks!
2018 · Movie
The Happy Prince
2018 · Movie
Ordeal by Innocence
2018 · Series
Trust
2018 · Series
Timewasters
2017 · Series
Love of My Life
2017 · Movie
The Last Dragonslayer
2016 · Movie
The Crown
2016 · Series
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016 · Movie
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016 · Movie
The Carer
2016 · Movie
New Blood
2016 · Series
Flowers
2016 · Series
Testament of Youth
2015 · Movie
Mapp and Lucia
2014 · Series
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014 · Movie
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Series
Sardines
2014 · Movie
Inside No. 9
2014 · Series
Fleming
2014 · Series
Private Lives
2013 · Movie
How I Live Now
2013 · Movie
Confessions of an Alien Abductee
2013 · Movie
Shetland
2013 · Series
A Touch of Cloth
2012 · Series
Pramface
2012 · Series
We'll Take Manhattan
2012 · Movie
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
Hidden
2011 · Series
The Hour
2011 · Series
Hysteria
2011 · Movie
Downton Abbey
2010 · Series
Critical Eye
2010 · Movie
Miranda
2009 · Series
Law & Order: UK
2009 · Series
Christmas at the Riviera
2007 · Movie
St Trinian's
2007 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007 · Series
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007 · Movie
Lewis
2007 · Series
Breaking and Entering
2006 · Movie
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006 · Movie
Suburban Shootout
2006 · Series
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005 · Movie
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 · Movie
The Best Man
2005 · Movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Movie
Roman Road
2004 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Blue Dove
2004 · Series
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004 · Movie
Hustle
2004 · Series
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003 · Movie
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003 · Movie
The Dreamers
2003 · Movie
Fortysomething
2003 · Series
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003 · Movie
What a Girl Wants
2003 · Movie
The Real Jane Austen
2002 · Movie
Tipping the Velvet
2002 · Series
Crush
2002 · Movie
Spooks
2002 · Series
The Cazalets
2001 · Series
Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
My Family
2000 · Series
Rebus
2000 · Series
Longitude
2000 · Series
Longitude
2000 · Movie
The Vice
1999 · Series
Heart
1999 · Movie
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997 · Movie
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Movie
Cold Lazarus
1996 · Series
Karaoke
1996 · Series
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
Pride and Prejudice
1995 · Series
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Series
Princess Caraboo
1994 · Movie
Staggered
1994 · Movie
Tom & Viv
1994 · Movie
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · Movie
Century
1993 · Movie
Jupiter Moon
1990 · Series
Killing Dad
1989 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
Casualty
1986 · Series