Anna Chancellor

Infobox actor
name = Anna Chancellor

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birthdate = Birth date and age|1965|4|27|df=y
birthplace = Richmond, Surrey, England
occupation = Actress
spouse = Nigel Willoughby (div.)

Anna Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress.

Family

Chancellor was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the daughter of the Hon. Mary Joliffe (daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton, of the Baron Hyltons) and John Chancellor. Through her mother, Chancellor is the great-great-granddaughter of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, [ [http://www.thegreenmag.co.uk/Editorial.aspx?brand=GREENOnline&category=GREENProfiles&story=SPED21+Mar+2007+13%3A26%3A07%3A013&page=1572 Green - Aristocratic Anna ] ] and through her father, she is the great-great-granddaughter of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham. Her uncle is journalist Alexander Chancellor and her eight-times great aunt was author Jane Austen.

In her third year at the London Academy of Musical and Dramatic Arts, she became pregnant and dropped out. Her daughter with cult Scots poet Jock Scott, Poppy, was born in 1988. When their relationship ended, she then married a cameraman, Nigel Willoughby, who she had met in 1993 while shooting a Boddington's advert. However, they divorced in 1999. She now lives with an Algerian cabdriver several years her junior, Redha, who is now a sound technician.

Career

Chancellor is perhaps best known for her performance as "Duckface" in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" opposite Hugh Grant. 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". In 2005, 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 "Jupiter Moon", "Karaoke", "Cold Lazarus", "The Dreamers", and "Tipping the Velvet", and has a starring role in the satirical black comedy "Suburban Shootout".

Controversy

Anna Chancellor caused minor controversy when, on "This Morning", she was asked about why her character in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was called 'Duckface', to which she replied "Actually it was originally supposed to be Fuckface". This caused several viewers to complain, despite Richard and Judy apologising immediately afterwards. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/four-weddings-and-a-funeral?cat=entertainment Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994: Movie and film review from Answers.com ] ]

Filmography

* "Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother", 1989
* "Jupiter Moon" (TV), 1990
* "Inspector Morse" (TV), 1992
* "Century", 1993
* "Poirot" - "The Chocolate Box" (TV), 1993
* "Comedy Playhouse" (TV), 1993
* "Four Weddings and a Funeral", 1994
* "Staggered", 1994
* "Princess Caraboo", 1994
* "Ellington" (TV), 1994
* "Tom & Viv", 1994
* "Pride and Prejudice", 1995
* "Cold Lazarus", 1996
* "Karaoke", 1996
* "Kavanagh QC" (TV), 1995-1997
* "", 1997
* "The Man Who Knew Too Little", 1997
* "The Vice" (TV), 1999
* "Heart", 1999
* "Longitude", 2000
* "The Cazalets" (TV), 2001
* "Crush", 2001
* "Tipping the Velvet", 2002
* "What a Girl Wants", 2003
* "Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie", 2003
* "Fortysomething (TV), 2003
* "The Dreamers", 2003
* "Confused", 2003
* "Blue Dove", 2003
* "", 2004
* "Roman Road", (TV) 2004
* "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", 2005
* "Feeder", 2005
* "The Best Man", 2005
* "", 2005
* "Suburban Shootout" (TV), 2006-2007
* "Breaking and Entering", 2006
* "Rebus" (TV), 2006
* "Spooks" (TV), 2005-2006
* "The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton", 2006
* "Baker Street Irregulars", 2007
* "St Trinian's", 2007
* "My Family, 2008

Theatre

* Mammals at the Oxford Playhouse and touring - Lorna, January 2006
* Never So Good, National Theatre - Summer 2008

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0151250|name=Anna Chancellor
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/personnel_anc.shtml Anna Chancellor] at the bbc.co.uk official "Spooks" website.
* [http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/anna-chancellor-fansite/ Fansite]
* [http://pandp2.home.comcast.net/pandp2cast/chancellor.html The Anna Chancellor Page]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/whats_on/listings/article789300.ece The duck who became a swan]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/10_october/09/anna_chancellor.shtml Anna Chancellor plays Diana]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/10/banna10.xml&page=1 'I was never, ever the ingénue']
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/073/000131677/ Anna Chancellor]