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Anna Chancellor

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A familiar face on television and film, Anna Chancellor is perhaps best known for her unforgettable role as Henrietta (Duckface) in the hit British film "Four Weddings and a Funeral." Her TV credits include Lix Storm in the Emmy award-winning miniseries "The Hour;" "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond" alongside Dominic Cooper, and in the UK comedy "Pramface." She has also appeared in popular television series such as "Downton Abbey," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Mapp & Lucia." She starred in three Agatha Christie adaptations: "Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Chocolate Box" (1993), "Agatha Christie's Marple: Murder is Easy" (2008) and "Ordeal by Innocence" (2018).
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Her eight-times great aunt is author Jane Austen.
She's twice a descendant of Mary Boleyn.
She has twice lost Colin Firth to another woman in a film. First in Pride and Prejudice (1995) when, as "Caroline Bingley", she loses out to Jennifer Ehle's "Elizabeth Bennet". Then, in What a Girl Wants (2003) as "Glynnis Payne", she loses him to Kelly Preston's "Libby Reynolds". Her bad luck when it comes to landing film hubbies apparently began in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), in which her "Henrietta" was jilted at the altar by terminal bachelor "Charles", played by actor Hugh Grant.
The niece of journalist/commentator Alexander Chancellor, and the daughter of John Chancellor with his first wife Hon. Mary Jolliffe, of the Lords Hylton (and herself a great-granddaughter of former Prime Minister H.H. Asquith). She is a cousin of actress Helena Bonham Carter (also a great-granddaughter of Asquith through his elder daughter, Violet).
She was nominated for the 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role of 1996 for her performance in "Stanley".

I did become quite well known from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work. I couldn't complain. It got me jobs in the theatre. I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays and never got one job, until I was in "Four Weddings".
I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
[referring to her character in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)] When I die, my obituary will probably be, "Duckface dies".

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