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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 Nat... more

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).

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Four Weddings and a Funeral
(1994)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Mike Newell
Cast:
Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah
7.1
96%
81
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The Dreamers
(2003)
Drama, Romance
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast:
Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci
7.2
60%
62
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(2005)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
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 researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Garth Jennings
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Yasiin Bey, John Malkovich
6.7
60%
63
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
(1997)
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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 unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Jon Amiel
Cast:
Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson
6.6
39%
N/A
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Testament of Youth
(2014)
Drama, History, War
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 classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of...
Runtime:
129 min
7.3
N/A
76
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What a Girl Wants
(2003)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
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, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes ...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Dennie Gordon
Cast:
Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver James
5.8
36%
41
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How I Live Now
(2013)
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Kevin Macdonald
Cast:
Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay, Corey Johnson
6.5
67%
57
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Breaking and Entering
(2006)
Drama, Romance
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
Anthony Minghella
Cast:
Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga, Robin Wright, Martin Freeman
6.5
34%
56
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St. Trinian's
(2007)
Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
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 painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Barnaby Thompson, Oliver Parker
Cast:
Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Lena Headey, Gemma Arterton, Antonia Bernath
5.8
31%
39
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Fleming
(2014)
Drama
A look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.
Runtime:
176 min
7.4
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FairyTale: A True Story
(1997)
Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Charles Sturridge
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, Peter O'Toole, Joseph May, Lara Morgan, Adam Franks
6.5
50%
N/A
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This Beautiful Fantastic
(2016)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Simon Aboud
Cast:
Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor
6.9
N/A
51
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Crush
(2001)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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 has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
John McKay
Cast:
Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson
5.8
N/A
37
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
(2004)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Kevin Allen
Cast:
Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Alfie Allen, Cynthia Stevenson
4.6
14%
32
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Cold Lazarus
(1996)
Dennis Potter's last production for television, screened alongside Karaoke.
Runtime:
300 min
Director:
Renny Rye
Cast:
Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Frances de la Tour, Grant Masters, Ganiat Kasumu
7.8
N/A
N/A
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The Carer
(2016)
Comedy
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 incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
János Edelényi
Cast:
Brian Cox, Emilia Fox, Anna Chancellor
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Mapp & Lucia
(2014)
Comedy, Drama
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
Runtime:
180 min
Director:
Diarmuid Lawrence
Cast:
Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Frances Barber
7.5
N/A
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Staggered
(1994)
Comedy
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 encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Martin Clunes
Cast:
Martin Clunes, Anna Chancellor, Michael Praed
5.9
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Cazalets
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Cazalets
(2001)
Drama
The Cazalets is a 2001 six-episode television drama series (5 episodes when broadcast in the US) about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1942.[1] Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Runtime:
360 min
7.5
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
(2005)
Drama
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the identities of “the young man” and “the dark lady” to whom all but two of the sonnets allude? ...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
John McKay
Cast:
Rupert Graves, Tom Sturridge, Indira Varma, Zoë Wanamaker, Anna Chancellor
6.5
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The Real Jane Austen
(2002)
Documentary, Drama
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions. Location shots of her homes in Steventon and Chawton and extracts from adaptations of her work are also featured.
Runtime:
60 min
Director:
Nicky Pattison
Cast:
Anna Chancellor, Gillian Kearney, John Standing, Phyllis Logan, Lucy Cohu
7.6
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Tipping the Velvet
(2002)
Drama, Romance
Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
Runtime:
178 min
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Christmas at the Riviera
(2007)
Comedy, Family
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
Runtime:
94 min
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West End Theatre Series: Private Lives
(2013)
Comedy
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless… and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Jonathan Kent
Cast:
Anna Chancellor, Toby Stephens, Anna-Louise Plowman, Anthony Calf
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