Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor

Birthday: 1965-04-27

Place of Birth: Richmond, Surrey, England, UK

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 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).

Movies

The Dreamers
The Dreamers

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens i...

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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may ...

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St Trinian's
St Trinian's

When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the pro...

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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)

A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swep...

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The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Man Who Knew Too Little

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case...

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Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

Doctor Bamford has had enough of village life and is desperate for some distance from inquisitive Co...

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FairyTale: A True Story
FairyTale: A True Story

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific e...

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Crush
Crush

Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sw...

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Staggered
Staggered

Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a S...

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Christmas at the Riviera
Christmas at the Riviera

The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period....

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How I Live Now
How I Live Now

An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose whi...

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

In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the gr...

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The Real Jane Austen
The Real Jane Austen

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Ja...

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Private Lives
Private Lives

Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their lo...

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Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
Confessions Of An Alien Abductee

Interviews with extraterrestrial abductees....

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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance wit...

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Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
National Theatre Live: The Seagull

On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed,...

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Stromboli
Stromboli

Haunted by memories of her broken marriage and a fight with her daughter, a woman joins an intense s...

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This Beautiful Fantastic
This Beautiful Fantastic

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale ...

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What a Girl Wants
What a Girl Wants

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foi...

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The Best Man
The Best Man

When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend...

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Breaking and Entering
Breaking and Entering

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair whic...

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Century
Century

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science....

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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Ant...

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Brighton Storeys
Brighton Storeys

In Brighton on the South coast of England, sharpened by the sting of sea spray, and mellowed by numi...

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The Carer
The Carer

Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legend...

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We'll Take Manhattan
We'll Take Manhattan

We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton an...

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The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton

In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for h...

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Roman Road
Roman Road

Vince is a writer who suddenly decides to visit his old college friend Matt (who knows more than a b...

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Longitude
Longitude

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

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Love of My Life
Love of My Life

What if you had only five days to figure out... everything....

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The Last Dragonslayer
The Last Dragonslayer

In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her des...

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Heart
Heart

A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly un...

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The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...

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Tom & Viv
Tom & Viv

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cop...

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Hysteria
Hysteria

Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ...

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Critical Eye
Critical Eye

Miserable critic, Brian Tanner, is famous for his vicious film reviews on his TV show Critical Eye. ...

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For Love or Money
For Love or Money

What started off as a whirlwind romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful b...

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Nativity Rocks!
Nativity Rocks!

The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacu...

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One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reuni...

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Come Away
Come Away

Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When the...

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Benjamin
Benjamin

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self a...

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Princess Caraboo
Princess Caraboo

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is trie...

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides...

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Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told...

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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'
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'

An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)....

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Playhouse Creatures
Playhouse Creatures

It’s the swinging (16)60s, and ‘the merry monarch’ Charles II is on the throne. After violent civil ...

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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
100 Greatest Sexy Moments

Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by ...

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