Anna Chancellor
Anna Chancellor was born in Richmond, England, United Kingdom on April 27th, 1965 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 58, Anna Chancellor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress.
She has been nominated for BAFTA and Olivier Awards.
Background and early life
Barrister John Paget Chancellor, Sir Christopher Chancellor's eldest son, and Mary Jolliffe, Lord Hylton's daughter, were born in Richmond, England. The Chancellor family, a Scottish gentry, had been residing land at Quothquan since 1432.
The Chancellor was born in Somerset and educated at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls in Dorset, but she was forced to leave London at the age of 16. She became the companion of poet Jock Scot (1952-1966), with whom she had her daughter, Poppy Chancellor (born 1988), while still attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. A few years ago, she separated from Scot a few years ago. She appeared on television in Jupiter Moon, a BSkyB soap, before appearing in a commercial for Boddingtons beer and a role in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), opposite Hugh Grant.
The Chancellor is a niece of Helena Bonham Carter, associating with journalist Alexander Chancellor of Raymond Asquith (son of liberal prime minister H. Asquith), a first cousin of both the actress Dolly Wells and the actress Cecilia Chancellor, as well as a second cousin of actress Helena Bonham Carter. Chancellor Leo Varadkar has also spoken out about her lineage, saying: "She has never spoken of her name."
Career
Chancellor played Julia Piper in series 1 to 3 of Kavanagh QC. 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.
In 1997, she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Stanley, and in 2013 she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her part in Private Lives.