Box of Frogs
2026 · Movie
as Anna
Anna Chancellor
1965-04-27
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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).
Filmography
My Brilliant Career
2026 · TV Show
as Señora Bossier
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Brighton Storeys
2025 · Movie
Playhouse Creatures
2025 · Movie
as Mrs Betterton
Outrageous
2025 · TV Show
as Sydney Bowles Mitford
The Girlfriend
2025 · TV Show
as Lillith Greenway
My Lady Jane
2024 · TV Show
as Lady Frances Grey
Fifteen-Love
2023 · TV Show
as And Woodward
Rain Dogs
2023 · TV Show
as Allegra
Stromboli
2022 · Movie
as Diane
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022 · Movie
as Lady Dant
Hotel Portofino
2022 · TV Show
as Lady Latchmere
Compulsion
2022 · TV Show
as Sasha
That Dirty Black Bag
2022 · TV Show
as Hellen
The Watch
2021 · TV Show
as Lord Vetinari
Come Away
2020 · Movie
as Eleanor Morrow
For Love or Money
2019 · Movie
as Carol
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019 · Movie
as Henrietta
Benjamin
2019 · Movie
as Tessa
The Importance of Being Oscar
2019 · Movie
as Lady Bracknell
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019 · TV Show
as Frances Gaunt
The Happy Prince
2018 · Movie
as Mrs. Arbuthnott
Nativity Rocks!
2018 · Movie
as Clara Hargreaves
Ordeal by Innocence
2018 · TV Show
as Rachel Argyll
Trust
2018 · TV Show
as Penelope
Love of My Life
2017 · Movie
as Grace
Timewasters
2017 · TV Show
as Victoria
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016 · Movie
as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016 · Movie
as Mrs Bramble
The Carer
2016 · Movie
as Milly
The Last Dragonslayer
2016 · Movie
as Stuffco president
New Blood
2016 · TV Show
as Eleanor Davies
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
as Lady Rosse
Flowers
2016 · TV Show
as Aunty Viv
Testament of Youth
2015 · Movie
as Mrs. Leighton
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014 · Movie
as Queen Victoria
Sardines
2014 · Movie
as Elizabeth
Fleming
2014 · TV Show
as Second Officer Monday
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV Show
as Elizabeth
Mapp and Lucia
2014 · TV Show
as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
Penny Dreadful
2014 · TV Show
as Claire Ives
How I Live Now
2013 · Movie
as Aunt Penn
Private Lives
2013 · Movie
as Amanda Prynne
Confessions of an Alien Abductee
2013 · Movie
as Narrator
Shetland
2013 · TV Show
as Phyllis Brennan
We'll Take Manhattan
2012 · Movie
as Lucie Clayton
Pramface
2012 · TV Show
as Janet Derbyshire
A Touch of Cloth
2012 · TV Show
as Hope Goodgirl
Hysteria
2011 · Movie
as Mrs. Bellamy
The Hour
2011 · TV Show
as Lix Storm
Hidden
2011 · TV Show
as Elspeth Verney
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · TV Show
as Self - Participant
Death in Paradise
2011 · TV Show
as Ciss Dacre
Critical Eye
2010 · Movie
as Laura
Downton Abbey
2010 · TV Show
as Lady Anstruther
Law & Order: UK
2009 · TV Show
as Evelyn Wyndham
Miranda
2009 · TV Show
as Helena
St Trinian's
2007 · Movie
as Miss Bagstock
Christmas at the Riviera
2007 · Movie
as Diane
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007 · Movie
as Irene Adler
Lewis
2007 · TV Show
as Judith Suskin
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007 · TV Show
as Irene Adler
Breaking and Entering
2006 · Movie
as Kate
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006 · Movie
as Elizabeth Doring
Suburban Shootout
2006 · TV Show
as Camilla Diamond
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Movie
as Questular Rontok
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005 · Movie
as Anne Hathaway
The Best Man
2005 · Movie
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 · Movie
as Self
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004 · Movie
as Jo Kenworth
Roman Road
2004 · Movie
as Maddy Bancroft
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
as Lydia Horton
Hustle
2004 · TV Show
as Wendy Stanton
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Blue Dove
2004 · TV Show
as Maria Bishop
The Dreamers
2003 · Movie
as Mother
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003 · Movie
as Nicky Bowden
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003 · Movie
as Professor's Daughter (voice)
What a Girl Wants
2003 · Movie
as Glynnis Payne
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Fortysomething
2003 · TV Show
as Estelle Slippery
Crush
2002 · Movie
as Molly Cartwright
The Real Jane Austen
2002 · Movie
as Presenter / Narrator
Spooks
2002 · TV Show
as Juliet Shaw
Tipping the Velvet
2002 · TV Show
as Diana Lethaby
The Cazalets
2001 · TV Show
as Diana Mackintosh
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV Show
as Lucy Christie
Longitude
2000 · Movie
as Muriel Gould
Rebus
2000 · TV Show
as Amanda Morrison
Longitude
2000 · TV Show
as Muriel Gould
My Family
2000 · TV Show
as Zelda Nobbs
Heart
1999 · Movie
as Nicole Farmer
The Vice
1999 · TV Show
as Dr Christina Weir
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997 · Movie
as Barbara Ritchie
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Movie
as Peter Pan
Silent Witness
1996 · TV Show
as Chief Supt. Karen Somerville
Karaoke
1996 · TV Show
as Anna Griffiths
Cold Lazarus
1996 · TV Show
as Anna Griffiths
Pride and Prejudice
1995 · TV Show
as Caroline Bingley
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · TV Show
as Julia Piper
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · Movie
as Henrietta
Staggered
1994 · Movie
as Carmen Svennipeg
Tom & Viv
1994 · Movie
as Woman
Princess Caraboo
1994 · Movie
as Mrs. Peake
Century
1993 · Movie
as Woman in Police Station
Jupiter Moon
1990 · TV Show
as Mercedes Page
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989 · Movie
as Barmaid
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
as Virginie Mesnard
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV Show
as Sally Smith
Casualty
1986 · TV Show
as Celia Morton
