Known For
Acting
Born
May 14, 1933
Place of Birth
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Credits
122 titles
Siân Phillips
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Frank and Percy
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Narrator
Apple Cider Vinegar
Voice
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
Doctor Who
Enid Meadows
Siân Phillips at 90
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Remembers…
Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
The Chelsea Detective
Grandma Dix
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
Self - Narrator
A Year in the Beacons
Narrator
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!
Maria
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
Narrator
Lewis
Adele Goffe
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Murder Room
Marie Strickland
Still: Here/Now
Self
The Last Detective
Vera Dulciman
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - Ru (archive footage)
Stalin: Inside the Terror
Narrator
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Attila
Grandmother
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Evil Baroness
Come and Go
Ru
The Magician's House
Meg Lewis
Aristocrats
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie
Arthouse
Self - Commentary