Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor

Born: April 27, 1965
Age: 59
Birthplace: Richmond, London, England
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Biography

Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress. She is the great-great-granddaughter of British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.

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Career

Chancellor had a prominent role in the series Kavanagh QC. She is also known for her performance as "Duckface" in Four Weddings and a Funeral opposite Hugh Grant. She has also been noted for her work as Caroline Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and as Questular Rontok in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In 2005, she joined the cast of the popular BBC One television drama series Spooks as a new regular character, Juliet Shaw. She has also appeared in The Vice, Jupiter Moon, Karaoke, Cold Lazarus, The Dreamers, and Tipping the Velvet, and has a starring role in the satirical black comedy Suburban Shootout. In 2011, she took a supporting role in the thriller serial The Hour, for which she received a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.

In 2013, she received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination for her work on Private Lives.

Charity

She is one of the Honorary Patrons of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1990 Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother Barmaid
Jupiter Moon Mercedes Page TV series (50 episodes: 1990-1996)
1992 Inspector Morse Sally Smith TV series (1 episode: "Cherubim and Seraphim")
1993 Agatha Christie's Poirot Virginie Mesnard TV series (1 episode: "The Chocolate Box")
Comedy Playhouse Julia TV series (1 episode: "The Complete Guide to Relationships")
Century Woman in Police Station
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral Henrietta (Duckface) - Wedding Four
Tom & Viv Woman
Staggered Carmen Svennipeg
Princess Caraboo Mrs. Peake
Ellington Ally Stone TV film
1995 Pride & Prejudice Caroline Bingley TV mini-series (6 episodes)
Kavanagh QC Julia Piper TV series (11 episodes: 1995-1997)
1996 Karaoke Anna Griffiths TV mini-series (4 episodes)
Cold Lazarus Anna Griffiths TV mini-series (3 episodes)
1997 FairyTale: A True Story Peter Pan
The Man Who Knew Too Little Barbara Ritchie
1999 The Vice Dr. Christine Weir TV series (5 episodes)
Heart Nicola Farmer
2000 Longitude Muriel Gould TV film
2001 The Cazalets Diana Mackintosh TV series (6 episodes)
Crush Molly Cartwright
2002 Tipping the Velvet Diana Lethaby TV series (2 episodes)
2003 Georgian Underworld Narrator TV series (1 episode: "Queer as 18th Century Folk")
What a Girl Wants Glynnis Payne
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie Nicky Bowden TV film
Fortysomething Estelle Slippery TV series (6 episodes)
The Dreamers Mother
Confused short
2004 Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Lady Josephine Kenworth
Blue Dove Maria Bishop TV series (2 episodes)
Roman Road Maddy Bancroft TV film
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Questular Rontok
Feeder Doctor short
The Best Man Dana
A Waste of Shame: Shakespeare and His Sonnets Anne Hathaway TV film
Spooks Juliet Shaw TV series (15 episodes: 2005-2007)
2006 Breaking and Entering Kate
Rebus Amanda Morrison TV series (1 episode: "Let It Bleed")
The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton Elizabeth Dorling TV film
Suburban Shootout Camilla Diamond TV series (11 episodes: 2006-2007)
2007 Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Irene Adler TV film
St. Trinians Miss Bagstock
Christmas at the Riviera Diane TV film
2008 My Family Zelda Nobbs TV series (1 episode: "Cards on the Table")
Agatha Christie's Marple Lydia Horton TV film
2009 Law & Order: UK Evelyn Wyndham TV series (2 episodes)
2010 Critical Eye Laura
Silent Witness Chief Supt. Karen Somerville TV series (2 episodes)
Miranda Helena TV series (Series 2 episode 4: "A New Low")
More Afraid of You Lucy short
2011 Hustle Wendy Stanton TV series (1 episode: "As Good as it Gets")
Waking the Dead Lucy Christie TV series (2 episodes)
Lewis Judith Suskin TV series (1 episode: "The Gift of Promise")
The Hour Lix Storm TV series (12 episodes)
Nominated - British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress
Hidden Elspeth Verney TV series (4 episodes)
Hysteria Mrs Bellamy
2012 Pramface Janet Derbyshire TV series
We'll Take Manhattan Lucie Clayton TV film
2013 A Touch of Cloth Hope Goodgirl TV series (2 episodes)
How I Live Now Aunt Penn
2014 Death Knight Love Story Miria Animated, motion-captured, fan-made Machinima film
Inside No. 9 Elizabeth Episode 1, "Sardines"
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond Second Officer Monday TV series (4 episodes)
Downton Abbey Lady Anstruther
Testament of Youth Mrs. Leighton
Mapp and Lucia Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas TV series (3 episodes)
Penny Dreadful Claire Ives TV series (1 episode)
2016 Shetland Phyllis Brennan TV series (4 episodes)
The Carer Milly
This Beautiful Fantastic Bramble post-production
Love of My Life Grace completed

Theatre

  • Boston Marriage, Donmar Warehouse - March-April 2001; Donmar in the West End - November 2001 - February 2002
  • Mammals at the Oxford Playhouse and touring - Lorna, January 2006
  • Never So Good, National Theatre - summer 2008
  • The Observer, National Theatre - spring 2009
  • The Last of the Duchess, Hampstead Theatre - October-November 2011
  • Private Lives (playing Amanda), Chichester Festival Theatre, September 2012, and the Gielgud Theatre, London (July-September 2013)
  • The Wolf From the Door, Royal Court Theatre, September-November 2014

Audiobooks

Chancellor has played the role of Ann Smiley in a BBC dramatisation of the John le Carre novels The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.

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