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Emma Shacklock

'No-one was looking because I am middle-aged and invisible', says Anna Chancellor as she reflects on grieving as a mother

Anna Chancellor attends the BFI London Film Festival Luminous Gala 2024 at The Roundhouse on October 01, 2024.

Anna Chancellor has recently spoken about the loss of her only child, Poppy Chancellor, two years ago and how "no-one" noticed her tears whenever she broke down in public.

Grief is a completely individual and unique experience and there are some losses that you could only understand if you’d gone through them - and which change you profoundly. The death of your child is an unimaginable tragedy for any parent and British acting legend Anna Chancellor has recently opened up about her own experience of grief. Anna’s only child, artist Poppy Chancellor, died of leukaemia aged 36 in September 2023.

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