Anna Chancellor
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7627 |
| Birthday | 1965-04-27 |
| Place of Birth | Richmond, Surrey, England, UK |
| Also Known As | آنا چنسلور, |
2003
The Dreamers
7.181/3161
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in wh...
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The Dreamers
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
6.8/3073
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
2007
St Trinian's
5.926/508
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless p...
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St Trinian's
1989
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
4.286/7
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her...
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6.692/4362
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little
6.35/602
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot un...
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
2003
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
6.559/17
Doctor Bamford has had enough of village life and is desperate for some distance from inquisitive Cornish neighbours. When the local estate agent show...
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Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
6.377/126
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the...
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FairyTale: A True Story
2002
Crush
5.683/52
Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them...
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Crush
1994
Staggered
5.321/14
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil enco...
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Staggered
2007
Christmas at the Riviera
4.227/11
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
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Christmas at the Riviera
2013
How I Live Now
6.627/969
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the w...
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How I Live Now
2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
5/10
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and...
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2002
The Real Jane Austen
8.5/2
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaime...
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The Real Jane Austen
2013
Private Lives
10/1
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when...
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Private Lives
2013
Confessions of an Alien Abductee
4.5/9
Interviews with extraterrestrial abductees.
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Confessions of an Alien Abductee
2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
0/0
A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance with him if he presents her with a red rose. The nigh...
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2015
Testament of Youth
7.242/811
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...
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Testament of Youth
2016
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
0/0
On a summer's day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin's cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever....
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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2022
Stromboli
5.228/45
Haunted by memories of her broken marriage and a fight with her daughter, a woman joins an intense self-help retreat when her vacation goes awry.
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Stromboli
2016
This Beautiful Fantastic
7.125/349
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a...
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This Beautiful Fantastic
2003
What a Girl Wants
6.303/1751
American Daphne Reynolds heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her boho mother, she lea...
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What a Girl Wants
2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
6.8/18
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2005
The Best Man
5.412/78
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start t...
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The Best Man
2006
Breaking and Entering
6.106/277
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape a...
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Breaking and Entering
1993
Century
5.125/8
Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
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Century
2004
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
5.615/691
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device be...
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2025
Brighton Storeys
0/0
In Brighton on the South coast of England, sharpened by the sting of sea spray, and mellowed by numinous light, a tight-knit community of oddballs and...
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Brighton Storeys
2016
The Carer
6.6/36
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an inc...
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The Carer
2012
We'll Take Manhattan
5.7/31
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild a...
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We'll Take Manhattan
2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
6.2/6
In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relativ...
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The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2004
Roman Road
0/0
Vince is a writer who suddenly decides to visit his old college friend Matt (who knows more than a bit about map-reading) to join him on an expedition...
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Roman Road
2000
Longitude
7.414/35
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Longitude
2017
Love of My Life
5.043/23
What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.
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Love of My Life
2016
The Last Dragonslayer
5.868/57
In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.
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The Last Dragonslayer
1999
Heart
5.385/13
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
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Heart
2018
The Happy Prince
6.211/194
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....
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The Happy Prince
1994
Tom & Viv
6.118/34
The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...
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Tom & Viv
2011
Hysteria
6.707/887
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
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Hysteria
2010
Critical Eye
0/0
Miserable critic, Brian Tanner, is famous for his vicious film reviews on his TV show Critical Eye. Over the years, he's grown to hate pretty much eve...
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Critical Eye
2019
For Love or Money
5.4/55
What started off as a whirlwind romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful bride-to-be is plotting against him. In cahoots wit...
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For Love or Money
2018
Nativity Rocks!
3.9/17
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.
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Nativity Rocks!
2019
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
6.968/31
You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after...
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One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2020
Come Away
5.82/323
Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they...
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Come Away
2019
Benjamin
6.1/91
Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard d...
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Benjamin
1994
Princess Caraboo
5.531/32
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...
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Princess Caraboo
2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
7.298/527
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2014
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
8/2
This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences recounted...
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Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
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'
0/0
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
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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'
2025
Playhouse Creatures
0/0
It’s the swinging (16)60s, and ‘the merry monarch’ Charles II is on the throne. After violent civil war, England’s theatres have finally reopened and,...
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Playhouse Creatures
2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
3.5/2
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and au...
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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2014
Sardines
9/1
It is the day of Rebecca and Jeremy's engagement party, and everyone (well, nearly everyone) has turned up to the old house to wish them well. Except...
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Sardines
2026
Box of Frogs
0/0
Rob's lived with obsessive-compulsive disorder since he was a kid, and it's worn him down to the bone. He turns to a support group to reach out to oth...
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Box of Frogs
2019
The Importance of Being Oscar
8/2
A star-studded BBC film of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Highl...
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