
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).
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- 2025 · Playhouse Creatures as Mrs Betterton
- 2024 · My Lady Jane as Lady Frances Grey
- 2023 · Fifteen-Love as And Woodward
- 2022 · Stromboli as Diane
- 2022 · Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Lady Dant
- 2022 · Compulsion as Sasha
- 2022 · That Dirty Black Bag as Hellen
- 2022 · Hotel Portofino as Lady Latchmere
- 2021 · The Watch as Lord Vetinari
- 2020 · Come Away as Eleanor Morrow
- 2019 · Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler as Frances Gaunt
- 2019 · One Red Nose Day and a Wedding as Henrietta
- 2019 · Benjamin as Tessa
- 2019 · For Love or Money as Carol
- 2018 · Nativity Rocks! as Clara Hargreaves
- 2018 · The Happy Prince as Mrs. Arbuthnott
- 2018 · Ordeal by Innocence as Rachel Argyll
- 2018 · Trust as Penelope
- 2017 · Love of My Life as Grace
- 2016 · The Last Dragonslayer as Stuffco president
- 2016 · The Crown as Lady Rosse
- 2016 · This Beautiful Fantastic as Mrs Bramble
- 2016 · National Theatre Live: The Seagull as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
- 2016 · The Carer as Milly
- 2016 · New Blood as Eleanor Davies
- 2016 · Flowers as Aunty Viv
- 2015 · Testament of Youth as Mrs. Leighton
- 2014 · Mapp and Lucia as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
- 2014 · Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled as Queen Victoria
- 2014 · Inside No. 9: Sardines as Elizabeth
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Elizabeth
- 2014 · Fleming as Second Officer Monday
- 2013 · Private Lives as Amanda Prynne
- 2013 · How I Live Now as Aunt Penn
- 2013 · Confessions Of An Alien Abductee as Narrator
- 2013 · Shetland as Phyllis Brennan
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as Hope Goodgirl
- 2012 · Pramface as
- 2012 · We'll Take Manhattan as Lucie Clayton
- 2011 · Death in Paradise as Ciss Dacre
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · Hidden as Elspeth Verney
- 2011 · The Hour as Lix Storm
- 2011 · Hysteria as Mrs. Bellamy
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Lady Anstruther
- 2010 · Critical Eye as Laura
- 2009 · Law & Order: UK as
- 2007 · Christmas at the Riviera as Diane
- 2007 · St. Trinian's as Miss Bagstock
- 2007 · Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Irene Adler
- 2007 · Lewis as Judith Suskin
- 2006 · Breaking and Entering as Kate
- 2006 · The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton as Elizabeth Doring
- 2006 · Suburban Shootout as
- 2005 · A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as Anne Hathaway
- 2005 · 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' as Self
- 2005 · The Best Man as Dana
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Questular Rontok
- 2004 · Roman Road as Maddy Bancroft
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Lydia Horton
- 2004 · Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as Jo Kenworth
- 2004 · Hustle as Wendy Stanton
- 2003 · Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose as Professor's Daughter (voice)
- 2003 · The Dreamers as Mother
- 2003 · Fortysomething as
- 2003 · Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie as Nicky Bowden
- 2003 · What a Girl Wants as Glynnis Payne
- 2002 · The Real Jane Austen as Presenter / Narrator
- 2002 · Tipping the Velvet as Diana Lethaby
- 2002 · Crush as Molly Cartwright
- 2002 · Spooks as Juliet Shaw
- 2001 · The Cazalets as Diana Mackintosh
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Lucy Christie
- 2000 · Rebus as Amanda Morrison
- 2000 · Longitude as Muriel Gould
- 2000 · Longitude as Muriel Gould
- 1999 · The Vice as Dr. Christine Weir
- 1999 · Heart as Nicole Farmer
- 1997 · The Man Who Knew Too Little as Barbara Ritchie
- 1997 · FairyTale: A True Story as Peter Pan
- 1996 · Cold Lazarus as Anna Griffiths
- 1996 · Karaoke as Anna Griffiths
- 1996 · Silent Witness as
- 1995 · Pride and Prejudice as Caroline Bingley
- 1995 · Kavanagh Q.C. as Julia Piper
- 1994 · Princess Caraboo as Mrs. Peake
- 1994 · Staggered as Carmen Svennipeg
- 1994 · Tom & Viv as Woman
- 1994 · Four Weddings and a Funeral as Henrietta
- 1993 · Century as Woman in Police Station
- 1990 · Jupiter Moon as
- 1989 · Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother) as Barmaid
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Virginie Mesnard
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Sally Smith
- 1986 · Casualty as Celia Morton
- Future · Brighton Storeys as
- Future · Outrageous as Sydney Bowles Mitford
- Future · The Girlfriend as Lilith