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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All Credits (105)
My Brilliant Career
as Mrs. Bossier
Box of Frogs
as Anna
Outrageous
as Sydney Bowles Mitford
Playhouse Creatures
as Mrs Betterton
My Lady Jane
as Lady Frances Grey
Fifteen-Love
as And Woodward
Rain Dogs
as Allegra
Stromboli
as Diane
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
as Lady Dant
Compulsion
as Sasha
That Dirty Black Bag
as Hellen
Hotel Portofino
as Lady Latchmere
The Watch
as Lord Vetinari
Come Away
as Eleanor Morrow
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
as Frances Gaunt
The Importance of Being Oscar
as Lady Bracknell
For Love or Money
as Carol
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Henrietta
Benjamin
as Tessa
Nativity Rocks!
as Clara Hargreaves
The Happy Prince
as Mrs. Arbuthnott
Ordeal by Innocence
as Rachel Argyll
Trust
as Penelope
Timewasters
as Victoria
Love of My Life
as Grace
The Last Dragonslayer
as Stuffco president
The Crown
as Lady Rosse
This Beautiful Fantastic
as Mrs Bramble
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
The Carer
as Milly
New Blood
as Eleanor Davies
Flowers
as Aunty Viv
Testament of Youth
as Mrs. Leighton
Mapp and Lucia
as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
as Queen Victoria
Penny Dreadful
as Claire Ives
Sardines
as Elizabeth
Inside No. 9
as Elizabeth
Fleming
as Second Officer Monday
Private Lives
as Amanda Prynne
How I Live Now
as Aunt Penn
Confessions of an Alien Abductee
as Narrator
Shetland
as Phyllis Brennan
A Touch of Cloth
as Hope Goodgirl
Pramface
as Janet Derbyshire
We'll Take Manhattan
as Lucie Clayton
Death in Paradise
as Ciss Dacre
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
Hidden
as Elspeth Verney
The Hour
as Lix Storm
Hysteria
as Mrs. Bellamy
Downton Abbey
as Lady Anstruther
Critical Eye
as Laura
Miranda
as Helena
Law & Order: UK
as Evelyn Wyndham
Christmas at the Riviera
as Diane
St Trinian's
as Miss Bagstock
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
as Irene Adler
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
as Irene Adler
Lewis
as Judith Suskin
Breaking and Entering
as Kate
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
as Elizabeth Doring
Suburban Shootout
as Camilla Diamond
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as Anne Hathaway
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
The Best Man
as Dana
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Questular Rontok
Roman Road
as Maddy Bancroft
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lydia Horton
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
as Jo Kenworth
Hustle
as Wendy Stanton
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Professor's Daughter (voice)
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
as Narrator (voice)
Fortysomething
as Estelle Slippery
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
as Nicky Bowden
What a Girl Wants
as Glynnis Payne
The Real Jane Austen
as Presenter / Narrator
Tipping the Velvet
as Diana Lethaby
Crush
as Molly Cartwright
Spooks
as Juliet Shaw
The Cazalets
as Diana Mackintosh
Waking the Dead
as Lucy Christie
My Family
as Zelda Nobbs
Rebus
as Amanda Morrison
Longitude
as Muriel Gould
Longitude
as Muriel Gould
The Vice
as Dr Christina Weir
Heart
as Nicole Farmer
The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Barbara Ritchie
FairyTale: A True Story
as Peter Pan
Cold Lazarus
as Anna Griffiths
Karaoke
as Anna Griffiths
Silent Witness
as Chief Supt. Karen Somerville
Pride and Prejudice
as Caroline Bingley
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Julia Piper
Princess Caraboo
as Mrs. Peake
Staggered
as Carmen Svennipeg
Tom & Viv
as Woman
Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Henrietta
Century
as Woman in Police Station
Jupiter Moon
as Mercedes Page
Killing Dad
as Barmaid
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Virginie Mesnard
Inspector Morse
as Sally Smith
Casualty
as Celia Morton