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Anastasia Hille (born 1965) is an English film, television and theatre actress and ceramicist.
Born in Lambeth, London, her mother was Finnish. Hille was a student at London's Drama Centre and won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards in 1994 for her performance as Isabella in Measure for Measure.[1]
Stage
She has twice been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, for The Master Builder at the Almeida Theatre in 2011,[2] and for The Effect at the National's Cottesloe Theatre in 2013.[3]
Television
Hille was nominated for the 2013 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2012 miniseries The Fear.[4]
Her other TV roles include Kavanagh QC: The Sweetest Thing (1995),[5] Trial & Retribution (1997),[5] as Carole Lombard in RKO 281 (2000),[5] The Cazalets (2001), Agatha Christie's Poirot: Three Act Tragedy (2010),[5] and The Missing (2016).[5]
Film
Her film roles include The Hole (2001),[5] The Abandoned (2006),[5] Snow White & the Huntsman (2012),[5] and A United Kingdom (2016).[5]
She is also a ceramicist known for her minimalist orb-shaped pieces. As a studio potter, she creates making simple, impactful ware that is both striking and functional, and porcelain pots from her studio in rural East Sussex.[6] While travelling extensively as an actress she studied ceramics in museums around the world. learning clay technique in Sussex studios where she runs her own studio.[6]
Hille is married to actor Paul Hilton from Lancashire. They have one child.
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Wisdom of Crocodiles | Karen | AKA, Immortality |
| 1999 | The Escort | Steffy | |
| 2000 | New Year's Day | Shelley | |
| 2000 | Five Seconds to Spare | Karla | |
| 2001 | The Hole | Gillian | |
| 2006 | The Abandoned | Marie Jones | |
| 2008 | Good | Helen Halder | |
| 2011 | The Awakening | Dorothy Vandermeer | |
| 2012 | Bert and Dickie | Lena Bushnell | |
| 2015 | Swansong | Dr. Bates | |
| 2015 | Hamlet | Gertrude | |
| 2016 | Trespass Against Us | Mrs. Crawley | |
| 2016 | A United Kingdom | Dot Williams | |
| 2017 | Tulip Fever | Mrs. Mitjins | |
| 2018 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Dr. Inge Horvath | |
| 2021 | Martyrs Lane | Lillian | |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Red Dwarf | New Kochanski | Episode: "Back to Reality" |
| 1993 | The Bill | Lena Foster | Episode: "Hypocritical Oath" |
| 1993 | Jeeves and Wooster | Rosie M Banks | Episode: "Honoria Glossop Turns Up" |
| 1995 | Kavanagh QC | Annie Lewis | Episode: "The Sweetest Thing" |
| 1995 | Eleven Men Against Eleven | Sylvia Tench | TV film |
| 1997 | Drovers' Gold | Isobel Markby | TV miniseries |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution | Belinda Sinclair | Episodes: "Tod eines Madchens", "1.2" |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Matilda | Episodes: "The Thirties", "The War" |
| 1998 | Big Women | Stephie | TV miniseries |
| 1999 | Twice in a Lifetime | Latisha | Recurring role |
| 1999 | RKO 281 | Carole Lombard | TV film |
| 2000 | Storm Damage | Rosa | TV film |
| 2001 | The Cazalets | Sybil Cazalet | Main role |
| 2002 | Outside the Rules | Rachel Selby | TV film |
| 2002, 2004 | Cutting It | Chantal Morisot | Episodes: "1.2", "1.5", "3.2" |
| 2004 | Hawking | Susan McClean | TV film |
| 2004 | Silent Witness | Kate Slattery | Episodes: "Nowhere Fast: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2006 | Tripping Over | Clare | Recurring role |
| 2008 | Spooks | Marina Connolly | Episode: "7.8" |
| 2009 | Lewis | Ginny Harris | |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Cynthia Dacres | Episode: "Three Act Tragedy" |
| 2010 | Foyle's War | Jane Devereaux | Episode: "The Hide" |
| 2011 | London's Burning | Jan | TV film |
| 2012 | The Bletchley Circle | Angela | Episodes: "Cracking a Killer's Code: Parts 2 & 3" |
| 2012 | Getting On | Dr. Tatty Oxford | Episodes: "3.4", "3.6" |
| 2012 | The Fear | Jo Beckett | All 4 episodes: "1.1", "1.2", "1.3", "1.4" |
| 2013 | The Tunnel | Andrea Kerrigan | Recurring role (series 1) |
| 2014 | Prey | Andrea Mackenzie | Main role (series 1) |
| 2014–2016 | The Missing | Celia Baptiste | Main role |
| 2015 | Not Safe for Work | Jeffries | TV miniseries |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Mary | Episodes: "What Happens to Idiots", "Home Sweet Home" |
| 2016 | Class | Orla'ath | Episode: "Nightvisiting" |
| 2016 | Him | Magda Elliot | Episodes: "1.1", "1.3" |
| 2016 | Humans | Diane | Episodes: "2.2", "2.4" |
| 2018 | Requiem | Laura | Episodes: "Blaidd Carreg", "Bessie" |
| 2018 | Wanderlust | Rita Bellows | Main role |
| 2018 | The Last Kingdom | Abbess | Episode: "3.4" |
| 2018 | West of Liberty | Martha | Episodes: "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.6" |
| 2019-2021 | Baptiste | Celia Baptiste | Main role |
| 2019 | Keeping Faith | Gael Reardon | Main role |
| 2020 | Silent Witness | Ann Carson | Episodes 23.7, 23.8 |
| 2021 | The Pembrokeshire Murders | Dr Angela Gallop | 3 Part Mini-Series ITV1 |
| 2022 | The Ipcress File | Alice | Supporting role |
| 2022 | A Spy Among Friends | Flora Solomon | TV miniseries |
| 2023 | The Couple Next Door | Susan | TV miniseries |
| 2024 | A Gentleman in Moscow | Olga | TV limited series |
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Measure for Measure | Isabella | Cheek by Jowl | [1] |
| 1995 | The Duchess of Malfi | The Duchess | Cheek by Jowl | [7] |
| 2009 | Dido, Queen of Carthage | Dido | London | [8] |
| 2010 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Barbican Centre, London | [9] |
| 2010 | The Master Builder | Almeida Theatre | [10][2] | |
| 2012 | The Effect | Royal National Theatre, London | [3] | |
| 2015 | Hamlet | Gertrude | Barbican Centre, London | [11] |
| 2022 | Oresteia | Klytemnestra | Park Avenue Armory |
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Ian Charleson Awards | Measure for Measure | Second | [1] | |
| 2011 | Olivier Award | Best Supporting Actress | The Master Builder | Nominated | [2] |
| 2013 | The Effect | Nominated | [3] | ||
| 2013 | BAFTA TV Award | Best Supporting Actress | The Fear | Nominated | [4] |
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