Who is Nigel Willoughby, Anna Chancellor’s first husband?
Matthew Wilson
Updated on January 14, 2026
Anna Theodora Chancellor is a British actress who has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards. Chancellor was brought up in Somerset and educated at St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury, which was a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls in Dorset.
Who is Nigel Willoughby, Anna Chancellor’s first husband?
Anna Chancellor’s first husband, Nigel Willoughby is a cinematographer, known for Downton Abbey (2010), Pearl Harbor (2001), and Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). Willoughby was born on 9 May 1950 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
Chancellor had one daughter, Poppy, Sadly, Poppy died from leukemia on 29th September 2023 aged 36. Moving on 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).
Chancellor got her first acting role on television playing Mercedes Page in Jupiter Moon, a BSkyB soap, then came a commercial for Boddington beer and a part in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
