
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 · The Girlfriend as Lilith
- 2025 · Outrageous as Sydney Bowles Mitford
- 2024 · My Lady Jane as Lady Frances Grey
- 2023 · Fifteen-Love as And Woodward
- 2022 · Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris as Lady Dant
- 2020 · Come Away as Eleanor Morrow
- 2019 · Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler as Frances Gaunt
- 2018 · Nativity Rocks! as Clara Hargreaves
- 2018 · Trust as Penelope
- 2016 · The Crown as Lady Rosse
- 2016 · Flowers as Aunty Viv
- 2015 · Testament of Youth as Mrs. Leighton
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Elizabeth
- 2013 · Private Lives as Amanda Prynne
- 2013 · How I Live Now as Aunt Penn
- 2013 · Shetland as Phyllis Brennan
- 2011 · Death in Paradise as Ciss Dacre
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · Hysteria as Mrs. Bellamy
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Lady Anstruther
- 2009 · Law & Order: UK as
- 2007 · Lewis as Judith Suskin
- 2006 · Breaking and Entering as Kate
- 2005 · A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as Anne Hathaway
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Questular Rontok
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Lydia Horton
- 2004 · Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as Jo Kenworth
- 2004 · Hustle as Wendy Stanton
- 2003 · The Dreamers as Mother
- 2003 · What a Girl Wants as Glynnis Payne
- 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 · FairyTale: A True Story as Peter Pan
- 1996 · Silent Witness as
- 1995 · Pride and Prejudice as Caroline Bingley
- 1995 · Kavanagh Q.C. as Julia Piper
- 1994 · Tom & Viv as Woman
- 1994 · Four Weddings and a Funeral as Henrietta
- 1990 · Jupiter Moon as
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Virginie Mesnard
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Sally Smith
- 1986 · Casualty as Celia Morton
- Future · Brighton Storeys as
- 2025 · Playhouse Creatures as Mrs Betterton
- 2022 · Stromboli as Diane
- 2022 · Compulsion as Sasha
- 2022 · That Dirty Black Bag as Hellen
- 2022 · Hotel Portofino as Lady Latchmere
- 2021 · The Watch as Lord Vetinari
- 2019 · Benjamin as Tessa
- 2019 · One Red Nose Day and a Wedding as Henrietta
- 2019 · For Love or Money as Carol
- 2018 · The Happy Prince as Mrs. Arbuthnott
- 2018 · Ordeal by Innocence as Rachel Argyll
- 2017 · Love of My Life as Grace
- 2016 · The Last Dragonslayer as Stuffco president
- 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
- 2014 · Mapp and Lucia as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
- 2014 · Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled as Queen Victoria
- 2014 · Fleming as Second Officer Monday
- 2013 · Confessions Of An Alien Abductee as Narrator
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as Hope Goodgirl
- 2012 · Pramface as
- 2012 · We'll Take Manhattan as Lucie Clayton
- 2011 · Hidden as Elspeth Verney
- 2011 · The Hour as Lix Storm
- 2010 · Critical Eye as Laura
- 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
- 2006 · The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton as Elizabeth Doring
- 2006 · Suburban Shootout as
- 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
- 2004 · Roman Road as Maddy Bancroft
- 2003 · Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose as Professor's Daughter (voice)
- 2003 · 100 Greatest Sexy Moments as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Estelle Slippery
- 2003 · Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie as Nicky Bowden
- 2002 · The Real Jane Austen as Presenter / Narrator
- 2002 · Tipping the Velvet as Diana Lethaby
- 2002 · Crush as Molly Cartwright
- 1997 · The Man Who Knew Too Little as Barbara Ritchie
- 1996 · Cold Lazarus as Anna Griffiths
- 1996 · Karaoke as Anna Griffiths
- 1994 · Princess Caraboo as Mrs. Peake
- 1994 · Staggered as Carmen Svennipeg
- 1993 · Century as Woman in Police Station
- 1989 · Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother) as Barmaid