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