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