Anna Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress.
| Net Worth | $16 Million |
| Date Of Birth | April 27, 1965 |
| Place Of Birth | Richmond, United Kingdom |
| Height | 1.79 m |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Profession | Actor |
| Education | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse | Redha Debbah, Nigel Willoughby |
| Children | Poppy Chancellor |
| Parents | John Chancellor, Mary Alice Jolliffe |
| Nicknames | Anna Chancellor, Chancellor, Anna |
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| Nominations | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Movies | The Dreamers, Four Weddings and a Funeral, What a Girl Wants, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, How I Live Now, This Beautiful Fantastic, Testament of Youth, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, St. Trinian's, The Man Who Knew Too Little, The Carer, FairyTale: A True Story, Hysteria, Breaking... |
| TV Shows | Pride and Prejudice, The Hour, Tipping the Velvet, Fortysomething, Spooks, Pramface, Suburban Shootout, Kavanagh QC, The Cazalets, New Blood, Mapp and Lucia, Jupiter Moon, The Vice, Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, Hidden, Longitude, Karaoke, Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
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| 1 | [referring to her character in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)] When I die, my obituary will probably be, "Duckface dies". |
| 2 | I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of! |
| 3 | I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change. |
| 4 | I did become quite well known from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work. I couldn't complain. It got me jobs in the theatre. I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays and never got one job, until I was in "Four Weddings". |
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| 1 | She's a descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. |
| 2 | She's twice a descendant of Mary Boleyn. |
| 3 | She has one daughter, Poppy Chancellor, born in 1988. Her father is Scots poet Jock Scott. |
| 4 | She has twice lost Colin Firth to another woman in a film. First in Pride and Prejudice (1995) when, as "Caroline Bingley", she loses out to Jennifer Ehle's "Elizabeth Bennet". Then, in What a Girl Wants (2003) as "Glynnis Payne", she loses him to Kelly Preston's "Libby Reynolds". Her bad luck when it comes to landing film hubbies apparently began in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), in which her "Henrietta" was jilted at the altar by terminal bachelor "Charles", played by actor Hugh Grant. |
| 5 | Once famously shocked TV hosts Richard & Judy, the TV audience, and the ITV network bosses, when she uttered the 'f' word live on This Morning (1988) whilst being interviewed. |
| 6 | Trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, but left at the age of 21 when she became pregnant with her daughter, Poppy. |
| 7 | She was nominated for the 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role of 1996 for her performance in "Stanley". |
| 8 | Anna's father was the great-grandson (maternally) of the 12th Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham, who was himself the son of the 10th Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham (two separate earldoms) by his *third* wife Fanny Margaretta Rice. Fanny Rice was herself the granddaughter maternally of one Edward Knight, of Chawton, Hants, and Godmersham, Kent, whose younger sister just happened to be one Jane Austen, novelist. |
| 9 | The niece of journalist/commentator Alexander Chancellor, and the daughter of John Chancellor by his 1st wife Hon. Mary Joliffe, of the Lords Hylton (and herself a great-granddaughter of H.H. Asquith, formerly a Prime Minister and then 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith). So that means she is related to actress Helena Bonham Carter (also a great-granddaughter of Asquith - but via his elder daughter Violet, instead of his eldest son like Anna). |
| 10 | Her eight-times great aunt is author Jane Austen. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Vice | 1999 | TV Series | Dr. Christine Weir |
| The Man Who Knew Too Little | 1997 | Barbara Ritchie |
| FairyTale: A True Story | 1997 | Peter Pan |
| Kavanagh QC | 1995-1997 | TV Series | Julia Piper / Julie Piper-Robinson |
| Cold Lazarus | 1996 | TV Mini-Series | Anna Griffiths |
| Karaoke | 1996 | TV Mini-Series | Anna Griffiths |
| Jupiter Moon | 1990-1996 | TV Series | Mercedes Page |
| Pride and Prejudice | 1995 | TV Mini-Series | Miss Bingley |
| Ellington | 1994 | TV Movie | Ally Stone |
| Princess Caraboo | 1994 | Mrs. Peake |
| Staggered | 1994 | Carmen Svennipeg |
| Tom & Viv | 1994 | Woman |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Henrietta - Wedding Two |
| Century | 1993 | Woman in Police Station |
| Comedy Playhouse | 1993 | TV Series | Julia |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | 1993 | TV Series | Virginie Mesnard |
| Casualty | 1992 | TV Series | Celia Morton |
| Inspector Morse | 1992 | TV Series | Sally Smith |
| Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother | 1990 | Barmaid |
| Love of My Life | 2016/I | post-production | Grace |
| This Beautiful Fantastic | 2016 | Bramble |
| New Blood | 2016 | TV Series | Eleanor Davies |
| Flowers | 2016 | TV Series | Aunty Viv |
| Shetland | 2016 | TV Series | Phyllis Brennan |
| The Carer | 2016/I | Milly |
| Mapp & Lucia | 2014 | TV Mini-Series | Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas |
| Testament of Youth | 2014 | Mrs. Leighton |
| Downton Abbey | 2014 | TV Series | Lady Anstruther |
| Penny Dreadful | 2014 | TV Series | Claire Ives |
| Pramface | 2012-2014 | TV Series | Janet Derbyshire |
| Fleming | 2014 | TV Mini-Series | Second Officer Monday |
| Inside No. 9 | 2014 | TV Series | Elizabeth |
| Death Knight Love Story | 2014 | Short | Miria (voice) |
| Noël Coward's Private Lives | 2013 | Amanda Prynne |
| How I Live Now | 2013 | Aunt Penn |
| A Touch of Cloth | 2013 | TV Series | Hope Goodgirl |
| The Hour | 2011-2012 | TV Series | Lix Storm |
| We'll Take Manhattan | 2012 | TV Movie | Lucie Clayton |
| More Afraid of You | 2012 | Short | Lucy |
| Hidden | 2011 | TV Mini-Series | Elspeth Verney |
| Hysteria | 2011 | Mrs. Bellamy |
| Inspector Lewis | 2011 | TV Series | Judith Suskin |
| Waking the Dead | 2011 | TV Series | Lucy Christie |
| Hustle | 2011 | TV Series | Wendy Stanton |
| Miranda | 2010 | TV Series | Helena |
| Law & Order: UK | 2009-2010 | TV Series | Evelyn Wyndham |
| Silent Witness | 2010 | TV Series | Chief Supt. Karen Somerville |
| Critical Eye | 2010 | Short | Laura |
| The Transaction | 2009 | Short | The Lady |
| Agatha Christie's Marple | 2008 | TV Series | Lydia Horton |
| My Family | 2008 | TV Series | Zelda Nobbs |
| Christmas at the Riviera | 2007 | TV Movie | Diane |
| St. Trinian's | 2007 | Miss Bagstock |
| MI-5 | 2005-2007 | TV Series | Juliet Shaw |
| Suburban Shootout | 2006-2007 | TV Series | Camilla Diamond |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars | 2007 | TV Movie | Irene Adler |
| The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton | 2006 | TV Movie | Elizabeth Dorling |
| Rebus | 2006 | TV Series | Amanda Morrison |
| Breaking and Entering | 2006 | Kate |
| A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets | 2005 | TV Movie | Anne Hathaway |
| The Best Man | 2005 | Dana |
| Feeder | 2005 | Short | Doctor |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 2005 | Questular Rontok |
| Roman Road | 2004 | TV Movie | Maddy Bancroft |
| Blue Dove | 2004 | TV Mini-Series | Maria Bishop |
| Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | 2004 | Jo Kenworth |
| Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | 2003 | TV Movie |
| Confused | 2003 | Short |
| The Dreamers | 2003 | Mother |
| Fortysomething | 2003 | TV Series | Estelle Slippery |
| Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie | 2003 | TV Movie | Nicky Bowden |
| What a Girl Wants | 2003 | Glynnis Payne |
| Georgian Underworld | 2003 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Tipping the Velvet | 2002 | TV Mini-Series | Diana Lethaby |
| Crush | 2001/I | Molly |
| The Cazalets | 2001 | TV Series | Diana Mackintosh |
| Longitude | 2000 | TV Movie | Muriel Gould |
| Heart | 1999 | Nicola Farmer |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The One Show | 2014 | TV Series | Herself / Mrs. Emmeline |
| Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Queen Victoria (voice) |
| My Life in Books | 2012 | TV Series | Herself |
| The People Speak UK | 2010 | Documentary | Herself |
| Antiques Master | 2010 | TV Series | Herself - Voice Over (voice) |
| The Curse of the Hope Diamond | 2010 | TV Movie | Herself (voice) |
| The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Narrator (voice) |
| Movie Connections | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Colin & Justin's Wedding Belles | 2006 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Tammy Wynette: 'Til I Can Make It on My Own | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| 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 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| 100 Greatest Sexy Moments | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Narrator (voice) |
| The Real Jane Austen | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Narrator |
| Richard & Judy | 2001 | TV Series | Herself |
| Crush: Behind the Scenes | 2001 | Video documentary short | Herself / Molly |
| The Laurence Olivier Awards 1997 | 1997 | TV Special | Herself |
| Perspectives on Pride and Prejudice | 1996 | Video documentary | Herself |
| For Love or Money | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
