Anastasia Hille
Biography
Anastasia Hille (born 28 November 1965 in Lambeth, London, England) is an English actress who works in film, television and theatre, and is also a ceramicist. She trained at the Drama Centre in London. In 1994 she received the second prize in the Ian Charleson Awards, an accolade in which Toby Stephens won first prize and Jude Law third. Hille has been nominated twice for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress: for her performance in The Master Builder at the Almeida Theatre in 2011, and for The Effect at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe Theatre in 2013. Her professional record lists sixty‑one credited roles.
Career overview
Anastasia Hille, born on 28 November 1965 in Lambeth, London, is an English actress whose work spans film, television and the stage, and she is also a ceramicist. She trained at the Drama Centre in London, a foundation that led to a diverse career encompassing more than sixty credited performances across screen and theatre. Hille’s early recognition came in 1994 when she secured second prize in the Ian Charleson Awards, an accolade that highlighted promising talent in classical theatre and placed her alongside first‑place winner Toby Stephens and third‑place nominee Jude Law.
Her stage work has earned critical acclaim, resulting in two Olivier Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. The first nomination was for her role in Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder at the Almeida Theatre in 2011, and the second followed in 2013 for her performance in Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe. These nominations underscore her reputation as a respected supporting actress in contemporary British theatre. Throughout her career, Hille has maintained a steady presence on screen, contributing to a broad array of television and film projects that reflect her versatility and commitment to the performing arts.
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- Steal (2026) as Haley Dunne
- Joy (2024) as Sheila Howarth
- Up the Catalogue (2024) as Maureen the Owl
- The Couple Next Door (2023) as Susan
- Roses (2023) as Rosa
- A Spy Among Friends (2022) as Flora Solomon
- The Ipcress File (2022) as Alice
- Martyrs Lane (2022) as Lillian
- Dalgliesh (2021) as Marie Strickland
- The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021) as Dr. Angela Gallop
- Love Gets a Room (2021) as Irena
- National Theatre Live: Paradise (2021) as Odysseus
- Van der Valk (2020) as Bibi Franken
- Sisters (2020) as Annie
- Baptiste (2019) as Celia Baptiste
- West of Liberty (2019) as Martha Barner
- Martha (2019) as Janet
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) as Dr. Inge Horvath
- Requiem (2018) as Laura
- Wanderlust (2018) as Rita Bellows
- Tulip Fever (2017) as Mrs. Mitjins
- Class (2016) as Orla'ath
- HIM (2016) as Magda Elliot
- A United Kingdom (2016) as Dot Williams
- Trespass Against Us (2016) as Mrs. Crawley
- The Last Kingdom (2015) as Abbess
- Humans (2015) as Diane
- You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015) as Mary
- Not Safe for Work (2015) as Jeffries
- National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015) as Gertrude
- Swansong (2015) as Dr Bates
- The Missing (2014) as Celia Baptiste
- Prey (2014) as DCI Andrea Mackenzie
- The Riot Club (2014) as Alistair's Mother
- Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) as Ravenna's mother
- The Bletchley Circle (2012) as Angela
- The Fear (2012) as Jo Beckett
- The Awakening (2011) as Dorothy Vandermeer
- London's Burning (2011) as Jan
- Desert Flower (2009) as Journalist
- Good (2008) as Helen
- Lewis (2007) as Ginny Harris
- Tripping Over (2006) as Clare
- The Abandoned (2006) as Marie Jones
- Hawking (2004) as Nurse Susan McClean
- Spooks (2002) as Marina Connolly
- Foyle's War (2002) as Jane Devereaux
- Cutting It (2002) as Chantal
- Cutting It (2002) as Chantal Morisot
- The Cazalets (2001)
- The Hole (2001) as Gillian
- New Year's Day (2001) as Shelley
- Five Seconds to Spare (2000) as Karla
- The Escort (1999) as Steffy
- RKO 281 (1999) as Carole Lombard
- Big Women (1998) as Stephie
- Trial & Retribution (1997) as Belinda Sinclair
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1997) as Matilda
- Eleven Men Against Eleven (1995) as Sylvia Tench
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990) as Rosie M Banks
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Cynthia Dacres
- Red Dwarf (1988) as New Kochanski