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

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

Private Lives

Sardines

The Real Jane Austen

The Cazalets

The Crown

Downton Abbey

Inside No. 9

Pride and Prejudice

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

Agatha Christie's Marple

Inspector Morse

Hustle

Spooks

My Lady Jane

Lewis

Shetland

Death in Paradise

The Hour

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Fortysomething

Silent Witness

Flowers

Longitude

Testament of Youth

The Girlfriend

Outrageous

A Touch of Cloth

This Beautiful Fantastic

Kavanagh Q.C.

That Dirty Black Bag

Waking the Dead

The Dreamers

New Blood

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

Trust

Pramface

Law & Order: UK

Ordeal by Innocence

Longitude

Fleming

Rebus

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

Tipping the Velvet

Hotel Portofino

Hysteria

The Carer