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).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6.7

The Dreamers

7.2

Four Weddings and a Funeral

6.8

The Crown

8.2

What a Girl Wants

6.3

Downton Abbey

8.1

How I Live Now

6.7

Hysteria

6.7

Testament of Youth

7.3

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

5.6

The Man Who Knew Too Little

6.4

Pride and Prejudice

8.2

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.1

St. Trinian's

5.9

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

7.3

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

7.9

This Beautiful Fantastic

7.1

Come Away

5.8

Death in Paradise

7.5

Breaking and Entering

6.1

Inside No. 9

8.0

The Happy Prince

6.3

Shetland

7.5

Hustle

7.6

My Lady Jane

7.5

Spooks

7.6

Inspector Morse

7.8

Agatha Christie's Marple

7.6

Ordeal by Innocence

7.0

FairyTale: A True Story

6.4

Lewis

7.6

Silent Witness

7.6

The Hour

7.5

Flowers

7.3

Casualty

6.0

Trust

7.1

Benjamin

6.3

The Best Man

5.4

A Touch of Cloth

7.3

That Dirty Black Bag

6.9

The Watch

5.5

Fleming

6.9

The Last Dragonslayer

6.0

For Love or Money

5.4

New Blood

7.0

Crush

5.7

Stromboli

5.3

Waking the Dead

7.3

Law & Order: UK

6.9

Tipping the Velvet

7.0

The Carer

6.7

Tom & Viv

6.1

Longitude

7.3

Hotel Portofino

7.0

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

7.2

Fortysomething

7.3

We'll Take Manhattan

5.7

Princess Caraboo

5.4

Love of My Life

5.1

Karaoke

6.9

Cold Lazarus

6.8

Rebus

7.0

Nativity Rocks!

3.8

Pramface

7.2

Hidden

6.5

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

6.4

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

6.9

Staggered

5.3

Heart

5.5

Mapp and Lucia

6.7

Fifteen-Love

5.5

Christmas at the Riviera

4.2

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

5.3

Confessions Of An Alien Abductee

4.6

Kavanagh Q.C.

7.0

The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton

6.2

Compulsion

5.8

Century

5.4

The Vice

6.0

Longitude

7.0

Jupiter Moon

5.2

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

5.0

Suburban Shootout

3.3

The Cazalets

8.0

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)

3.5

The Real Jane Austen

8.5

Private Lives

10.0

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

10.0

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

0.0

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

0.0

Brighton Storeys

0.0

Roman Road

0.0

Critical Eye

0.0

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'

0.0

Outrageous

0.0

The Girlfriend

0.0