Anna Chancellor

Known for ActingBorn 1965-04-27 (age 61)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).Read more

Movies & web series

Private Lives

Sardines

The Real Jane Austen

The Cazalets

The Crown

Inside No. 9

Downton Abbey

The Importance of Being Oscar

Pride and Prejudice

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

Penny Dreadful

Outrageous

Agatha Christie's Marple

Inspector Morse

Hustle

My Lady Jane

Spooks

Miranda

Lewis

Shetland

The Hour

Silent Witness

Death in Paradise

Flowers

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Fortysomething

Longitude

Testament of Youth

The Girlfriend

A Touch of Cloth

This Beautiful Fantastic

That Dirty Black Bag

Waking the Dead

Kavanagh Q.C.

The Dreamers

New Blood

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

My Family

Ordeal by Innocence

Law & Order: UK

Trust

Longitude

Pramface

Fleming

Hotel Portofino

Tipping the Velvet