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