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