Anna Chancellor parents: Meet John Chancellor, Mary Alice Jolliffe

Anna Theodora Chancellor was born in Richmond, Chancellor has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards. As an actress. She got her first acting role on television playing Mercedes Page in Jupiter Moon.

Anna Chancellor’s parents: Meet John Chancellor, Mary Alice Jolliffe

John Chancellor is the father of Anna Chancellor, John Paget Chancellor, eldest son of Sir Christopher Chancellor, and also her mother is Mary Jolliffe, who is the daughter of Lord Hylton. The Chancellor family were Scottish gentry who had owned land at Quothquan since 1432.

Chancellor is a niece of the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a great-granddaughter of Raymond Asquith, a first cousin of both the actress Dolly Wells and the model Cecilia Chancellor, a second cousin of the actress Helena Bonham Carter, and the great-nieces Jane Austen eight generations removed.

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).

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