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 (2011β2012), 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 (2012β2014), Ordeal by Innocence (2018) and Rain Dogs (2023); the Channel 5 series Suburban Shootout (2006β2007); the Netflix series The Crown (2017); the Epix series Pennyworth (2019β2021); 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 (101)
Box of Frogs
2026
Playhouse Creatures
2025
Outrageous
2025
The Girlfriend
2025
My Lady Jane
2024
Fifteen-Love
2023
Stromboli
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
Hotel Portofino
2022
Compulsion
2022
That Dirty Black Bag
2022
The Watch
2021
Come Away
2020
For Love or Money
2019
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
Benjamin
2019
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019
The Happy Prince
2018
Nativity Rocks!
2018
Ordeal by Innocence
2018
Trust
2018
Love of My Life
2017
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016
The Carer
2016
The Last Dragonslayer
2016
New Blood
2016
The Crown
2016
Flowers
2016
Testament of Youth
2015
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014
Sardines
2014
Fleming
2014
Inside No. 9
2014
Mapp and Lucia
2014
How I Live Now
2013
Private Lives
2013
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
2013
Shetland
2013
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
Pramface
2012
A Touch of Cloth
2012
Hysteria
2011
The Hour
2011
Hidden
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Death in Paradise
2011
Critical Eye
2010
Downton Abbey
2010
Law & Order: UK
2009
St Trinian's
2007
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
Lewis
2007
Breaking and Entering
2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006
Suburban Shootout
2006
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
The Best Man
2005
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
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
Roman Road
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Hustle
2004
The Dreamers
2003
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
What a Girl Wants
2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Fortysomething
2003
Crush
2002
The Real Jane Austen
2002
Spooks
2002
Tipping the Velvet
2002
The Cazalets
2001
Waking the Dead
2001
Longitude
2000
Rebus
2000
Longitude
2000
Heart
1999
The Vice
1999
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
Silent Witness
1996
Karaoke
1996
Cold Lazarus
1996
Pride and Prejudice
1995
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
Staggered
1994
Tom & Viv
1994
Princess Caraboo
1994
Century
1993
Jupiter Moon
1990
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Inspector Morse
1987
Casualty
1986
Brighton Storeys
My Brilliant Career
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