Siân Phillips
Acting
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
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tvDoctor Who
2024
Enid Meadows
tvRemembers…
2022
Self
tvThe Chelsea Detective
2022
Grandma Dix
tvWonders of the Celtic Deep
2021
Self - Narrator
tvA Year in the Beacons
2021
Narrator
movieNational Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
movieDream Horse
2021
Maureen
movieA Christmas Carol
2020
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
movieSummerland
2020
Margaret Corey
tvMcDonald & Dodds
2020
Agnes Gillian
movieNational Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
Madame Neilsen
movieTime & Again
2019
Eleanor
tvGood Omens
2019
Mr. Henderson
movieNureyev
2018
Narrator
movieMiss Dalí
2018
Anna Maria Dalí
movieVoyageuse
2018
Erica
movieHochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
Sarah Walker
movieUnder Milk Wood
2014
Mrs. Pugh
movieLovesong
2012
Maggie
tvLewis
2007
Adele Goffe
movieThe Murder Room
2004
Marie Strickland
tvThe Last Detective
2003
Vera Dulciman
movieCheck the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
Self - Ru (archive footage)
tvAttila
2001
Grandmother
movieCinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Evil Baroness
tvThe Magician's House
1999
Meg Lewis
movieAristocrats
1999
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
movieThe Scold's Bridle
1998
Mathilda Gillespie
tvThe Scold's Bridle
1998
Mathilda
Arthouse
1997
Self - Commentary
tvMidsomer Murders
1997
Lady Annabel Butler
tvLa Femme Nikita
1997
Adrian
tvIvanhoe
1997
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
tvSilent Witness
1996
Beattie Elletson
movieThe Mousehole Cat
1995
Narrator
movieThe Age of Innocence
1993
Mrs. Archer
tvHeidi
1993
Frau Sesemann
The Sherman Plays
1993
Self - Introduction
tvThe Borrowers
1992
Mrs. Driver
movieThe Chestnut Soldier
1991
Nain Griffiths
tvTonight at 8.30
1991
Clare Wedderburn / Barbara Faber / Olive Lloyd-Ransome
movieThe Black Candle
1991
Daisy Barnett
movieEmlyn's Moon
1990
Nain Griffiths
tvPerfect Scoundrels
1990
Mother Aloysius
Red Empire
1990
Narrator (voice)
movieDark River
1990
Mrs. Blessington
movieValmont
1989
Madame de Volanges
tvShadow of the Noose
1989
Lady Scott
tvAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Mrs. Laura Upward
movieDavid Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
Mersyankh (voice)
movieThe Snow Spider
1988
Nain Griffiths
tvVanity Fair
1987
Matilda Crawley
tvA Killing on the Exchange
1987
Isobel Makepeace
tvThe Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
Duchess of Windsor
movieThe Doctor and the Devils
1985
Annabella Rock
movieDune
1984
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
movieHow Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
Mrs Alicia Moore
tvWinston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
Clementine Churchill
movieClash of the Titans
1981
Cassiopeia
movieCarpathian Eagle
1980
Mrs. Henska
tvHammer House of Horror
1980
Mrs. Henska
movieNijinsky
1980
Lady Ripon
tvTinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Ann Smiley
tvCrime and Punishment
1979
Katerina Ivánovna
tvTales of the Unexpected
1979
Hermione
tvWarrior Queen
1978
Queen Boudicca
movieHeartbreak House
1977
Hesione Hushabye
movieThe Achurch Letters
1977
Janet Achurch
tvI, Claudius
1976
Livia
tvHow Green Was My Valley
1975
Beth Morgan
movieJennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
tvShoulder to Shoulder
1974
Emmeline Pankhurst
tvPlayhouse
1974
Janet Achurch / Alicia Moore
movieUnder Milk Wood
1972
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
movieMurphy's War
1971
Hayden
movieGoodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
Ursula Mossbank
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
Martha Jones
movieLaughter in the Dark
1969
Lady Pamela More
tvITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Sally Stirling
Thief
1968
Woman
tvITV Playhouse
1967
May Bartram
tvHalf Hour Story
1967
A Girl
movieEh, Joe?
1966
Voice
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Anna Voinitseva / The Duchesse of Berwich / Hesione Hushabye
movieBecket
1964
Gwendolen
tvEspionage
1963
Anna
movieThe Longest Day
1962
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Drama 61-67
1961
Carole Blair
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Nominee
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Lady Lavery