Siân Phillips
Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips DBE (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress, author and singer.
Phillips was the daughter of Sally (née Thomas), a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker-turned-policeman. She is a Welsh-speaker and in the first volume of her autobiography, "Private Faces", she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio.
She attended Pontardawe Grammar School and later read English and Philosophy at University College Cardiff, graduating in 1955. She entered RADA in LOndon, England with a scholarship in September 1955, the same year as Diana Rigg and Glenda Jackson. She went on to win the prestigious Bancroft Gold Medal for Hedda Gabler and was offered work in Hollywood when she left RADA. While still a student she was offered three film contracts, entailing her to work for an extended period of time in the United States; but she declined, preferring to work on stage instead.
Fotos
Filmes (67)
Frank and Percy
2026
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Self
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024 · Voice
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · self
Siân Phillips at 90
2023 · Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022 · Self
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021 · Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Dream Horse
2021 · Maureen
A Christmas Carol
2020 · Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Summerland
2020 · Margaret Corey
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019 · Madame Neilsen
Time & Again
2019 · Eleanor
Be Happy!
2019 · Maria
Nureyev
2018 · Narrator
To Provide All People
2018 · Patient
Miss Dalí
2018 · Anna Maria Dalí
Voyageuse
2018 · Erica
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017 · Sarah Walker
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Under Milk Wood
2014 · Mrs. Pugh
A Picture of London
2012 · Narrator
Lovesong
2012 · Maggie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011 · Narrator
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Self
The Murder Room
2004 · Marie Strickland
Still: Here/Now
2003 · Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Self - Ru (archive footage)
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003 · Narrator
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · Self
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000 · Evil Baroness
Come and Go
2000 · Ru
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998 · Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
1998 · Mathilda Gillespie
House of America
1997 · Mam
The Mousehole Cat
1995 · Narrator
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995 · Calypso
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Mrs. Archer
The Chestnut Soldier
1991 · Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
1991 · Daisy Barnett
Emlyn's Moon
1990 · Nain Griffiths
Dark River
1990 · Mrs. Blessington
Valmont
1989 · Madame de Volanges
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Mersyankh (voice)
The Snow Spider
1988 · Nain Griffiths
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985 · Charal
The Doctor and the Devils
1985 · Annabella Rock
Dune
1984 · Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982 · Mrs Alicia Moore
Clash of the Titans
1981 · Cassiopeia
Carpathian Eagle
1980 · Mrs. Henska
Nijinsky
1980 · Lady Ripon
Heartbreak House
1977 · Hesione Hushabye
The Achurch Letters
1977 · Janet Achurch
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974 · Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Under Milk Wood
1972 · Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Platonov
1971 · Anna
Murphy's War
1971 · Hayden
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969 · Ursula Mossbank
Laughter in the Dark
1969 · Lady Pamela More
Thief
1968 · Woman
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968 · Jo
Eh, Joe?
1966 · Voice
Young Cassidy
1965 · Ella
Becket
1964 · Gwendolen
Don Juan in Hell
1962 · Dona Ana
The Longest Day
1962 · WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Séries (55)
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
2024 · Narrator
Doctor Who
2024 · Enid Meadows
Remembers…
2022 · Self
O Detetive de Chelsea
2022 · Grandma Dix
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021 · Self - Narrator
A Year in the Beacons
2021 · Narrator
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · Agnes Gillian
Good Omens
2019 · Mr. Henderson
Playhouse Presents
2012 · May
Lewis
2007 · Adele Goffe
The Last Detective
2003 · Vera Dulciman
Attila
2001 · Grandmother
The Magician's House
1999 · Meg Lewis
The Scold's Bridle
1998 · Mathilda
Arthouse
1997 · Self - Commentary
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Lady Annabel Butler
La Femme Nikita
1997 · Adrian
Ivanhoe
1997 · Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
Silent Witness
1996 · Beattie Elletson
The Return of the Borrowers
1993 · Mrs. Driver
Heidi
1993 · Frau Sesemann
The Sherman Plays
1993 · Self - Introduction
The Borrowers
1992 · Mrs. Driver
Tonight at 8.30
1991 · Clare Wedderburn, Barbara Faber, Olive Lloyd-Ransome
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Mother Aloysius
Red Empire
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Shadow of the Noose
1989 · Lady Scott
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Mrs. Laura Upward
The Snow Spider
1988 · Nain Griffiths
Vanity Fair
1987 · Matilda Crawley
When Reason Sleeps
1987 · Miss Drake
A Killing on the Exchange
1987 · Isobel Makepeace
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987 · Duchess of Windsor
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981 · Clementine Churchill
Hammer House of Horror
1980 · Mrs. Henska
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 · Ann Smiley
Crime and Punishment
1979 · Katerina Ivánovna
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Hermione
Warrior Queen
1978 · Queen Boudicca
I, Claudius
1976 · Livia
How Green Was My Valley
1975 · Beth Morgan
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974 · Emmeline Pankhurst
Playhouse
1974 · Janet Achurch, Alicia Moore
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Martha Jones
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Sally Stirling
The Sex Game
1968 · Louisa
City '68
1967 · Jo
ITV Playhouse
1967 · May Bartram
Half Hour Story
1967 · A Girl
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Anna Voinitseva, The Duchesse of Berwich, Hesione Hushabye
Espionage
1963 · Anna
Drama 61-67
1961 · Carole Blair
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Lady Lavery