Anna Chancellor

Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress. She has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards.
== Background and early life ==
The daughter of John Chancellor and Mary Jolliffe, a daughter of Lord Hylton, Chancellor was brought up in Somerset and educated at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls in Dorset, but left at sixteen to live in London, later describing her early years there as "quite wild".[1]In her early twenties, she became the partner of the poet Jock Scot (1952–2016), with whom she had a daughter whilst still studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She separated from Scot a few years later.[2] She got her first acting role on television playing Mercedes Page in Jupiter Moon, a BSkyB soap, then came a commercial for Boddingtons beer and a part in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994),[1] playing "Duckface" opposite Hugh Grant.
Chancellor is a niece of the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a great-granddaughter of Raymond Asquith (son of the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith), a first cousin of the model Cecilia Chancellor and a second cousin of the actress Helena Bonham Carter.[3][4] Chancellor herself has spoken derisively of her lineage, stating:
== Career ==
Chancellor had a prominent role in the series Kavanagh QC[clarification needed]. She also played Caroline Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and Questular Rontok in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). The same year, she joined the cast of BBC One television drama series Spooks as Juliet Shaw. She has also appeared in The Vice, Karaoke, Cold Lazarus, The Dreamers, Tipping the Velvet and Fortysomething, and had a leading role in the satirical black comedy Suburban Shootout. In 2011, she took a supporting role in the BBC thriller serial The Hour, for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.[6]
In 1997, she received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for her performance in Stanley and in 2013 an Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination for her part in Private Lives.
== Charity ==
She is a patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.[7]
== Filmography ==
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1990	Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother 	Barmaid 	
1990	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")
1993	Comedy Playhouse 	Julia 	TV series (1 episode: "The Complete Guide to Relationships")
1993	Century 	Woman in Police Station 	
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral 	Henrietta – Wedding Two 	
1994	Tom and Viv 	Woman 	
1994	Staggered 	Carmen Svennipeg 	
1994	Princess Caraboo 	Mrs. Peake 	
1994	Ellington 	Ally Stone 	TV film
1995	Pride & Prejudice 	Caroline Bingley 	TV mini-series (6 episodes)
1995	Kavanagh QC 	Julia Piper 	TV series (11 episodes: 1995–1997)
1996	Karaoke 	Anna Griffiths 	TV mini-series (4 episodes)
1996	Cold Lazarus 	Anna Griffiths 	TV mini-series (3 episodes)
1997	FairyTale: A True Story 	Peter Pan 	
1997	The Man Who Knew Too Little 	Barbara Ritchie 	
1999	The Vice 	Dr. Christine Weir 	TV series (5 episodes)
1999	Heart 	Nicola Farmer 	
2000	Longitude 	Muriel Gould 	TV film
2001	The Cazalets 	Diana Mackintosh 	TV series (6 episodes)
2001	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")
2003	What a Girl Wants 	Glynnis Payne 	
2003	Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie 	Nicky Bowden 	TV film
2003	Fortysomething 	Estelle Slippery 	TV series (6 episodes)
2003	The Dreamers 	Mother 	
2003	Confused 	 	short
2004	Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London 	Lady Josephine Kenworth 	
2004	Blue Dove 	Maria Bishop 	TV series (2 episodes)
2004	Roman Road 	Maddy Bancroft 	TV film
2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 	Questular Rontok 	
2005	Feeder 	Doctor 	short
2005	The Best Man 	Dana 	
2005	A Waste of Shame: Shakespeare and His Sonnets 	Anne Hathaway 	TV film
2005	Spooks 	Juliet Shaw 	TV series (15 episodes: 2005–2007)
2006	Breaking and Entering 	Kate 	
2006	Rebus 	Amanda Morrison 	TV series (1 episode: "Let It Bleed")
2006	The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton 	Elizabeth Dorling 	TV film
2006	Suburban Shootout 	Camilla Diamond 	TV series (11 episodes: 2006–2007)
2007	Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars	Irene Adler 	TV film
2007	St. Trinians 	Miss Bagstock 	
2007	Christmas at the Riviera 	Diane 	TV film
2008	My Family 	Zelda Nobbs 	TV series (1 episode: "Cards on the Table")
2008	Agatha Christie's Marple: Murder Is Easy 	Lydia Horton 	TV film
2009	Law & Order: UK 	Evelyn Wyndham 	TV series (2 episodes)
2010	Critical Eye 	Laura 	
2010	Silent Witness 	Chief Supt. Karen Somerville	TV series (2 episodes)
2010	Miranda 	Helena 	TV series (Series 2 episode 4: "A New Low")
2011	Hustle 	Wendy Stanton 	TV series (1 episode: "As Good as it Gets")
2011	Waking the Dead 	Lucy Christie 	TV series (2 episodes)
2011	Lewis 	Judith Suskin 	TV series (1 episode: "The Gift of Promise")
2011	Hysteria 	Mrs Bellamy 	
2011	Hidden 	Elspeth Verney 	TV series (4 episodes)
2011	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
2012	More Afraid of You 	Lucy 	short
2012	Pramface 	Janet Derbyshire 	TV series
2012	We'll Take Manhattan 	Lucie Clayton 	TV film
2013	A Touch of Cloth 	Hope Goodgirl 	TV series (2 episodes)
2013	How I Live Now 	Aunt Penn 	
2013	Noël Coward's Private Lives 	Amanda Prynne 	
2014	Death Knight Love Story 	Miria 	Animated, motion-captured, fan-made Machinima film
2014	Inside No. 9 	Elizabeth 	Episode 1, "Sardines"
2014	Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond 	Second Officer Monday 	TV series (4 episodes)
2014	Penny Dreadful 	Claire Ives 	TV series (1 episode)
2014	Downton Abbey 	Lady Anstruther 	
2014	Testament of Youth 	Mrs. Leighton 	
2014	Mapp and Lucia 	Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas 	TV series (3 episodes)
2016	The Carer 	Milly 	
2016	Shetland 	Phyllis Brennan 	TV series (4 episodes)
2016	New Blood 	Eleanor Davies 	TV Series
2016	Grantchester 	Aunt Cece 	Christmas special
2016	This Beautiful Fantastic 	Bramble 	
2017	Love of My Life 	Grace 	
2017	The Crown 	Lady Rosse 	
2018	Ordeal by Innocence 	Rachel Argyll 	TV series - 3 episodes[8]
2018	Trust 	Penelope Kittson 	TV Series - 5 episodes
2018	The Happy Prince 	Mrs Arbuthnot 	
Category:American film actresses