If you have just received the March issue of your Psychologies magazine subscription, then you’ll see that the cover star is British actress Anna Chancellor. Now she may not be a name known by every household, but no doubt you’ll have seen her in something.
She first caught our eye playing “Duckface” in Four Weddings and a Funeral and has since gone to establish herself as a successful actress.
She discusses how her career seems to have picked up a lot more now in her forties than it did in her younger years, as although she was in Four Weddings and a Funeral and had parts in successful series’ such as the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice, she now has great parts coming out of her ears.
She recently starred in the The Hour, for which she has just finished filming the second series, as well as thriller Hidden and performed two stints in theatre, in David Hare’s South Downs and Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version. Impressive.
Her personal life also attracted some attention when Chancellor started a relationship with her cab driver, who was also Algerian and seven years her junior.
“They would park outside our house and wait for us, so I had a tiny taste of what Sienna Miller has described going through [in the Leveson phone hacking inquiry]. It’s just a human instinct to feel afraid.”
She’s also quite content with her level of fame: “I’m pretty lucky ... I look at how we treat the really famous. Hugh Grant was brilliant in a film that made more money than any other British film. He was talented and attractive – he represented an England that we were proud of. Look at JK Rowling [both Grant and Rowling have been targeted by tabloid newspapers]. Why don’t we care? Why aren’t we proud of these people?”
If you want to check out the rest of the interview with Anna Chancellor, be sure to check out the March issue of Psychologies magazine.
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Posted by Laurie Clifford .
