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.
Born: 14 May 1933
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Richard Burton: Wild Genius
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Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Narrator
Apple Cider Vinegar
Voice
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
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Doctor Who
Enid Meadows
Siân Phillips at 90
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
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Remembers…
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
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The Chelsea Detective
Grandma Dix
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
Self - Narrator
A Year in the Beacons
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Dream Horse
Maureen
A Christmas Carol
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Summerland
Margaret Corey
McDonald & Dodds
Agnes Gillian
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Madame Neilsen
Time & Again
Eleanor
Be Happy!
Good Omens
Mr. Henderson
Nureyev
Narrator
To Provide All People
Patient
Miss Dalí
Anna Maria Dalí
Voyageuse
Erica
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Sarah Walker
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Pugh
A Picture of London
Narrator
Playhouse Presents
May
Lovesong
Maggie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
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Lewis
Adele Goffe
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Murder Room
Marie Strickland
Still: Here/Now
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The Last Detective
Vera Dulciman
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - Ru (archive footage)
Stalin: Inside the Terror
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I, Claudius: A Television Epic
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Attila
Grandmother
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Evil Baroness
Come and Go
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The Magician's House
Meg Lewis
Aristocrats
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda
Arthouse
Self - Commentary
Midsomer Murders
Lady Annabel Butler
La Femme Nikita
Adrian
Ivanhoe
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
House of America
Mam
Silent Witness
Beattie Elletson
The Mousehole Cat
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The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Calypso
The Return of the Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Archer
Heidi
Frau Sesemann
The Sherman Plays
Self - Introduction
The Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
The Chestnut Soldier
Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
Daisy Barnett
Emlyn's Moon
Nain Griffiths
Perfect Scoundrels
Mother Aloysius
Red Empire
Narrator (voice)
Dark River
Mrs. Blessington
Valmont
Madame de Volanges
Shadow of the Noose
Lady Scott
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Laura Upward
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Mersyankh (voice)
The Snow Spider
Nain Griffiths
Vanity Fair
Matilda Crawley
A Killing on the Exchange
Isobel Makepeace
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Duchess of Windsor
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Charal
The Doctor and the Devils
Annabella Rock
Dune
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Mrs Alicia Moore
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Clementine Churchill
Clash of the Titans
Cassiopeia
Carpathian Eagle
Mrs. Henska
Hammer House of Horror
Mrs. Henska
Nijinsky
Lady Ripon
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Ann Smiley
Crime and Punishment
Katerina Ivánovna
Tales of the Unexpected
Hermione
Warrior Queen
Queen Boudicca
Heartbreak House
Hesione Hushabye
The Achurch Letters
Janet Achurch
I, Claudius
Livia
How Green Was My Valley
Beth Morgan
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Shoulder to Shoulder
Emmeline Pankhurst
Playhouse
Janet Achurch
Playhouse
Alicia Moore
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Platonov
Anna
Murphy's War
Hayden
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ursula Mossbank
W. Somerset Maugham
Martha Jones
Laughter in the Dark
Lady Pamela More
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Sally Stirling
The Sex Game
Louisa
Thief
Woman
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Jo
ITV Playhouse
May Bartram
Half Hour Story
A Girl
Eh, Joe?
Voice
BBC Play of the Month
Anna Voinitseva
BBC Play of the Month
The Duchesse of Berwich
BBC Play of the Month
Hesione Hushabye
Young Cassidy
Ella
Becket
Gwendolen
Espionage
Anna
Don Juan in Hell
Dona Ana
The Longest Day
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Drama 61-67
Carole Blair
Armchair Theatre
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lady Lavery
Frank and Percy