Portrait of Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor

Acting

Biography

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).

Born: April 27, 1965

Place of Birth: Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

Filmography

2025
2025
Outrageous

as Sydney Bowles Mitford

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
Compulsion

as Sasha

2022
Hotel Portofino

as Lady Latchmere

2021
The Watch

as Lord Vetinari

2020
Come Away

as Eleanor Morrow

2019
Benjamin

as Tessa

2019
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
2016
The Last Dragonslayer

as Stuffco president

2016
The Crown

as Lady Rosse

2016
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
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
Shetland

as Phyllis Brennan

2012
A Touch of Cloth

as Hope Goodgirl

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

2007
St Trinian's

as Miss Bagstock

2007
Lewis

as Judith Suskin

2006
2005
2004
Roman Road

as Maddy Bancroft

2004
2004
Hustle

as Wendy Stanton

2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

as Professor's Daughter (voice)

2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments

as Narrator (voice)

2003
The Dreamers

as Mother

2003
Fortysomething

as Estelle Slippery

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
1996
Cold Lazarus

as Anna Griffiths

1996
Karaoke

as Anna Griffiths

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

1993
Century

as Woman in Police Station

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Virginie Mesnard

1987
Inspector Morse

as Sally Smith

1986
Casualty

as Celia Morton