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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:

"You've worked hard all your life to be an actress, or whatever you've done, and that is what's presented to you. Don't you think that's embarrassing? I don't enjoy being quoted as saying that's who I am, because I don't feel that is who I am."^[5]

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

Theatre

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  Boston Marriage, Donmar Warehouse – March–April 2001; Donmar in the West End – November 2001 – February 2002


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  Mammals at the Oxford Playhouse and touring – Lorna, January 2006


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  Never So Good, National Theatre – summer 2008


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  The Observer, National Theatre – spring 2009


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  The Last of the Duchess, Hampstead Theatre – October–November 2011


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  Private Lives (playing Amanda), Chichester Festival Theatre, September 2012, and the Gielgud Theatre, London (July–September 2013)^[9]
  


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  The Wolf From the Door, Royal Court Theatre, September–November 2014^[10]
  


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  The Seagull by Anton Chekhov at National Theatre – summer 2016

Audiobooks

Chancellor has played the role of Ann Smiley in a BBC dramatisation of the John le Carre novels The Honourable Schoolboy^[11] and Smiley's People.^[12]

Ancestry

References

External links

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  Anna Chancellor on IMDb


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  Anna Chancellor at the bbc.co.uk official Spooks website


• The Anna Chancellor Page


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  Anna Chancellor sponsored video interview at The Huffington Post