Anna Chancellor

Actor Apr 27 (age 60) Richmond, Surrey, England, UK 1986–2026 (40 year career)

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Biography

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…

Known For

Film

The Dreamers

Mother

Film

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Questular Rontok

Film

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Henrietta

Film

Pride and Prejudice

Caroline Bingley

Film

Testament of Youth

Mrs. Leighton

Film

What a Girl Wants

Glynnis Payne

Film

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Lady Dant

Film

Hysteria

Mrs. Bellamy

Filmography

Acting (102)

Movies (52)

Box of Frogs

2026

as Anna

Playhouse Creatures

2025

as Mrs Betterton

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

as Lady Dant

Stromboli

as Diane

Come Away

as Eleanor Morrow

For Love or Money

as Carol

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

as Henrietta

Benjamin

as Tessa

The Happy Prince

as Mrs. Arbuthnott

Nativity Rocks!

as Clara Hargreaves

Love of My Life

as Grace

This Beautiful Fantastic

2016

as Mrs Bramble

7.1

The Last Dragonslayer

as Stuffco president

The Carer

as Milly

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

2016

as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina

Testament of Youth

2015

as Mrs. Leighton

7.3

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

2014

as Queen Victoria

10.0

Confessions Of An Alien Abductee

as Narrator

How I Live Now

as Aunt Penn

Private Lives

as Amanda Prynne

We'll Take Manhattan

as Lucie Clayton

Hysteria

as Mrs. Bellamy

Critical Eye

as Laura

St Trinian's

2007

as Miss Bagstock

5.9

Christmas at the Riviera

2007

as Diane

4.0

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

2007

as Irene Adler

6.8

Breaking and Entering

2006

as Kate

6.0

The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton

2006

as Elizabeth Doring

6.2

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

2005

as Anne Hathaway

4.8

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

as Questular Rontok

The Best Man

as Dana

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

as Self

Roman Road

2004

as Maddy Bancroft

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

as Jo Kenworth

The Dreamers

as Mother

What a Girl Wants

as Glynnis Payne

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

2003

as Narrator (voice)

3.5

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

2003

as Nicky Bowden

6.3

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

2003

as Professor's Daughter (voice)

The Real Jane Austen

2002

as Presenter / Narrator

Crush

as Molly Cartwright

Longitude

as Muriel Gould

Heart

as Nicole Farmer

FairyTale: A True Story

1997

as Peter Pan

6.4

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997

as Barbara Ritchie

6.3

Four Weddings and a Funeral

as Henrietta

Princess Caraboo

as Mrs. Peake

Tom & Viv

as Woman

Staggered

as Carmen Svennipeg

Century

as Woman in Police Station

4.9

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)

1989

as Barmaid

3.0

Brighton Storeys

Television (50)

My Brilliant Career

2026 Upcoming

as Señora Bossier

Apr 15

The Girlfriend

2025

as Lillith Greenway

7.2

Outrageous

2025

as Sydney Bowles Mitford

My Lady Jane

as Lady Frances Grey

Fifteen-Love

as And Woodward

Hotel Portofino

as Lady Latchmere

That Dirty Black Bag

as Hellen

Compulsion

as Sasha

The Watch

as Lord Vetinari

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

as Frances Gaunt

Trust

as Penelope

Ordeal by Innocence

as Rachel Argyll

The Crown

as Lady Rosse

Flowers

as Aunty Viv

New Blood

as Eleanor Davies

Inside No. 9

as Elizabeth

Fleming

as Second Officer Monday

6.8

Mapp and Lucia

2014

as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas

Shetland

as Phyllis Brennan

A Touch of Cloth

as Hope Goodgirl

Pramface

Death in Paradise

as Ciss Dacre

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

The Hour

as Lix Storm

Hidden

as Elspeth Verney

Downton Abbey

as Lady Anstruther

Law & Order: UK

Lewis

as Judith Suskin

Suburban Shootout

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lydia Horton

Hustle

as Wendy Stanton

Fortysomething

as Estelle Slippery

Spooks

as Juliet Shaw

Spooks

as Juliet Shaw

Tipping the Velvet

as Diana Lethaby

Waking the Dead

as Lucy Christie

The Cazalets

as Diana Mackintosh

Rebus

as Amanda Morrison

Longitude

as Muriel Gould

The Vice

as Dr. Christine Weir

Silent Witness

Karaoke

as Anna Griffiths

Cold Lazarus

as Anna Griffiths

Cold Lazarus

as Anna Griffiths

Pride and Prejudice

as Caroline Bingley

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Julia Piper

Jupiter Moon

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Virginie Mesnard

Inspector Morse

as Sally Smith

Casualty

as Celia Morton