Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is an English actress of film, television and theatre. She has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards.
When people said schooldays were the best days of your life, I remember thinking: 'Tell me it's not true. This cannot be it. ' I don't think my life has ever been that bad again. It hasn't always been easy but at least I have been free.
I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.
I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.
I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
I find running life quite hard and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.
I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.
I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.
I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.