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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Playhouse Creatures
2025
as Mrs Betterton
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,...

Stromboli
2022
as Diane
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.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
as Lady Dant
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.

Come Away
2020
as Eleanor Morrow
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 ...

For Love or Money
2019
as Carol
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...

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
as Henrietta
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...

Benjamin
2019
as Tessa
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...

Nativity Rocks!
2018
as Clara Hargreaves
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.

The Happy Prince
2018
as Mrs. Arbuthnott
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....

Love of My Life
2017
as Grace
What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.

The Last Dragonslayer
2016
as Stuffco president
In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.

This Beautiful Fantastic
2016
as Mrs Bramble
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a ...

National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016
as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina
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. ...

The Carer
2016
as Milly
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...

Testament of Youth
2015
as Mrs. Leighton
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...

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
2014
as Queen Victoria
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 ...

Private Lives
2013
as Amanda Prynne
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when ...

How I Live Now
2013
as Aunt Penn
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...

Confessions Of An Alien Abductee
2013
as Narrator
Interviews with extraterrestrial abductees.

We'll Take Manhattan
2012
as Lucie Clayton
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild a...

Hysteria
2011
as Mrs. Bellamy
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

Critical Eye
2010
as Laura
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...

Christmas at the Riviera
2007
as Diane
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.

St Trinian's
2007
as Miss Bagstock
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...

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
as Irene Adler
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.

Breaking and Entering
2006
as Kate
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape a...

The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
2006
as Elizabeth Doring
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...

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
as Anne Hathaway
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and ...

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
as Self
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

The Best Man
2005
as Dana
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...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Questular Rontok
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...

Roman Road
2004
as Maddy Bancroft
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...

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
as Jo Kenworth
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device be...

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
as Professor's Daughter (voice)
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...

100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and au...

The Dreamers
2003
as Mother
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...

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie
2003
as Nicky Bowden
Doctor Bamford has had enough of village life and is desperate for some distance from inquisitive Cornish neighbours. When the local estate agent show...

What a Girl Wants
2003
as Glynnis Payne
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...

The Real Jane Austen
2002
as Presenter / Narrator
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaime...

Crush
2002
as Molly Cartwright
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 ...

Longitude
2000
as Muriel Gould
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Heart
1999
as Nicole Farmer
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
as Barbara Ritchie
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...

FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Peter Pan
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 ...

Princess Caraboo
1994
as Mrs. Peake
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 ...

Staggered
1994
as Carmen Svennipeg
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...

Tom & Viv
1994
as Woman
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...

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
as Henrietta
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Century
1993
as Woman in Police Station
Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
as Barmaid
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 ...
Brighton Storeys
N/A
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...