| Anna Chancellor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 April 1965 Richmond, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Nigel Willoughby (div.) |
Anna Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress.
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Family
Chancellor was born in Richmond, England, the daughter of the Hon. Mary Joliffe (daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton, of the Baron Hyltons) and former Reuters chairman Sir John Chancellor. Through her mother, Chancellor is the great-great-granddaughter of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith,[1] 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.
Chancellor was accepted into the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, but in her third year 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, whom 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.[2]
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
- FairyTale: A True Story, 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
- Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, 2004
- Roman Road, (TV) 2004
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2005
- Feeder, 2005
- The Best Man, 2005
- A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets, 2005
- Suburban Shootout (TV), 2006-2007
- Breaking and Entering, 2006
- Rebus (TV), 2006
- Spooks (TV), 2005-2007
- The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, 2006
- Baker Street Irregulars, 2007
- St Trinian's, 2007
- My Family, 2008
Theatre
- Boston Marriage, Donmar Warehouse - March-April 2001; Donmar in the West End - November 2001-February 2002
- Mammals at the Oxford Playhouse and touring - Lorna, January 2006
- Never So Good, National Theatre - Summer 2008
- The Observer, National Theatre - Spring 2009
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