Highest rated as cast or director
The Hour
2011 · 2 Seasons
My Lady Jane
2024 · 1 Season
New Blood
2016 · 1 Season
Ordeal by Innocence
2018 · 1 Season
Benjamin
2019
The Dreamers
2003
Anna Chancellor's 8 titles from the 2010s have a median Balasaur Score of 68, led by The Hour (79) and New Blood (72), against 62 for those from the 2020s.
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).
Acted in 103
2020s
- 2026
Box of Frogs
Anna
- 2025
Playhouse Creatures
Mrs Betterton
- 2024
- 2023
Fifteen-Love
And Woodward · 6 episodes
- 2022
Compulsion
Sasha · 4 episodes
That Dirty Black Bag
Hellen · 8 episodes
- 2021
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
The Importance of Being Oscar
Lady Bracknell
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Henrietta
- 2018
Nativity Rocks!
Clara Hargreaves
- 2017
Love of My Life
Grace
- 2016
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
The Carer
Milly
Flowers
Aunty Viv · 1 episode
- 2015
- 2014
Mapp and Lucia
Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas · 3 episodes
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
Queen Victoria
Sardines
Elizabeth
Fleming
Second Officer Monday · 4 episodes
- 2013
Private Lives
Amanda Prynne
- 2012
Pramface
Janet Derbyshire · 13 episodes
- 2011
Hidden
Elspeth Verney · 4 episodes
- 2010
Critical Eye
Laura
2000s
- 2009
- 2007
Christmas at the Riviera
Diane
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Irene Adler
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Irene Adler · 2 episodes
- 2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Elizabeth Doring
Suburban Shootout
Camilla Diamond · 14 episodes
- 2005
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
Anne Hathaway
- 2004
- 2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Professor's Daughter (voice)
Fortysomething
Estelle Slippery · 6 episodes
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
Nicky Bowden
- 2002
The Real Jane Austen
Presenter / Narrator
Tipping the Velvet
Diana Lethaby · 2 episodes
- 2001
The Cazalets
Diana Mackintosh · 6 episodes
- 2000
Longitude
Muriel Gould
Longitude
Muriel Gould · 2 episodes
1990s
- 1999
Heart
Nicole Farmer
- 1997
FairyTale: A True Story
Peter Pan
- 1996
Cold Lazarus
Anna Griffiths · 3 episodes
Karaoke
Anna Griffiths · 4 episodes
- 1995
- 1994
Staggered
Carmen Svennipeg
Tom & Viv
Woman
- 1993
Century
Woman in Police Station
- 1990
Appearances4
2010s
- 2013
- 2011
2000s
- 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'
Self
- 2003
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Narrator (voice)