Occupation Actress Height 1.79 m Role Actress | Name Anna Chancellor Years active 1990–present Children Poppy Chancellor | |
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Spouse Redha Debbah (m. 2010), Nigel Willoughby (m. 1993–1998) Parents John Chancellor, Mary Alice Jolliffe Movies and TV shows The Hour, Four Weddings and a Fu, The Dreamers, What a Girl Wants, Tipping the Velvet Similar People Christina Cole, John McKay, Kevin Macdonald, David Bamber, Dennie Gordon | ||
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Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress of film, television and theatre. She has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards.
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- Henry goodman rosalie craig anna chancellor and maria freedman discuss olivier nominations
- Anna chancellor had a mini four weddings reunion on her latest film this morning
- Background and early life
- Career
- Charity
- Theatre
- Audiobooks
- References
Anna chancellor had a mini four weddings reunion on her latest film this morning
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". She became the partner of the poet Jock Scot (1952–2016), and in her early twenties had a daughter, Poppy, whilst still studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She separated from Scot a few years later. She got her first acting role on television playing Mercedes Page in Jupiter Moon, a BSkyB soap, then came a commercial for Boddingtons and a part in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), 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.
Career
Chancellor had a prominent role in the series Kavanagh QC. 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 (2005). The same year, 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, 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.
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.
Theatre
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.