
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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Movies
16 titles
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Come Away
The Happy Prince
This Beautiful Fantastic
Testament of Youth
How I Live Now
Hysteria
St Trinian's
Breaking and Entering
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
The Dreamers
What a Girl Wants
The Man Who Knew Too Little
FairyTale: A True Story
Four Weddings and a Funeral
TV series
19 titles
My Lady Jane
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Ordeal by Innocence
The Crown
Inside No. 9
Penny Dreadful
Shetland
Death in Paradise
The Hour
Downton Abbey
Miranda
Lewis
Agatha Christie's Marple
Hustle
Spooks
Silent Witness
Pride and Prejudice
Agatha Christie's Poirot