Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress. 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 former Reuters chairman Sir John Chancellor. Through her mother, Chancellor is the great-great-granddaughter of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, and through her father, she is the great-great-granddaughter of the Earl of Winchilsea... more

Anna Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress. 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 former Reuters chairman Sir John Chancellor. Through her mother, Chancellor is the great-great-granddaughter of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, 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... less