Anna Chancellor
Known for: Acting
Born: April 27, 1965
Place of birth: Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
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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Filmography
54 movies · 55 TV shows, newest first
4.9
My Brilliant Career
2026
NR
Box of Frogs
2026
7.1
The Girlfriend
2025
7.7
Outrageous
2025
NR
Playhouse Creatures
2025NR
Brighton Storeys
2025
7.5
My Lady Jane
2024
5.2
Fifteen-Love
2023
6.6
Rain Dogs
2023
5.2
Stromboli
2022
7.3
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
5.8
Compulsion
2022
7.1
That Dirty Black Bag
2022
6.7
Hotel Portofino
2022
5.4
The Watch
2021
5.8
Come Away
2020
7.9
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019
8.0
The Importance of Being Oscar
2019
5.4
For Love or Money
2019
7.0
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
6.1
Benjamin
2019
3.9
Nativity Rocks!
2018
6.2
The Happy Prince
2018
6.9
Ordeal by Innocence
2018
6.9
Trust
2018
6.1
Timewasters
2017
5.0
Love of My Life
2017
5.9
The Last Dragonslayer
2016
8.2
The Crown
2016
7.1
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016
NR
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016
6.6
The Carer
2016
7.0
New Blood
2016
7.4
Flowers
2016
7.2
Testament of Youth
2015
6.3
Mapp and Lucia
2014
8.0
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014
7.8
Penny Dreadful
2014
9.0
Sardines
2014
8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
6.8
Fleming
2014
10.0
Private Lives
2013
6.6
How I Live Now
2013
4.5
Confessions of an Alien Abductee
2013
7.5
Shetland
2013
7.2
A Touch of Cloth
2012
6.9
Pramface
2012
5.7
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
6.0
Hidden
2011
7.5
The Hour
2011
6.7
Hysteria
2011
8.1
Downton Abbey
2010
NR
Critical Eye
2010
7.6
Miranda
2009
7.0
Law & Order: UK
2009
4.2
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
5.9
St Trinian's
2007
6.8
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
NR
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
7.6
Lewis
2007
6.1
Breaking and Entering
2006
6.2
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006
4.3
Suburban Shootout
2006
5.0
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
NR
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'
2005
5.4
The Best Man
2005
6.7
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
NR
Roman Road
2004
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004NR
Blue Dove
2004
5.6
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
7.7
Hustle
2004
NR
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
3.5
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
7.2
The Dreamers
2003
7.5
Fortysomething
2003
6.6
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003
6.3
What a Girl Wants
2003
8.5
The Real Jane Austen
2002
6.9
Tipping the Velvet
2002
5.7
Crush
2002
7.7
Spooks
2002
8.5
The Cazalets
2001
7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
7.1
My Family
2000
6.9
Rebus
2000
7.4
Longitude
2000
7.0
Longitude
2000
5.6
The Vice
1999
5.4
Heart
1999
6.4
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
6.9
Cold Lazarus
1996
6.8
Karaoke
1996
7.6
Silent Witness
1996
8.2
Pride and Prejudice
1995
7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
5.5
Princess Caraboo
1994
5.3
Staggered
1994
6.1
Tom & Viv
1994
6.8
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
5.1
Century
1993
5.8
Jupiter Moon
1990
4.3
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
6.2
Casualty
1986