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Siân Phillips
Actor
Born May 14, 1933 (91 years)
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.
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
| 2024 | Apple Cider Vinegar · as Voice |
| 2023 | Doctor Who (2023) (TV Series) · as Enid Meadows |
| 2022 | The Chelsea Detective (TV Series) · as Grandma Dix |
| 2021 | A Year in the Beacons (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2020 | A Christmas Carol · as Grandmother / Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Summerland · as Margaret Corey |
| 2020 | National Theatre at Home: Les Blancs · as Madame Neilsen |
| 2020 | Dream Horse · as Maureen |
| 2020 | McDonald & Dodds (TV Series) · as Agnes Gillian |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Good Omens (TV Series) · as Mr. Henderson |
| 2018 | Miss Dalí · as Anna Maria Dalí |
| 2018 | Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain · as Narrator |
| 2018 | To Provide All People · as Patient |
| 2018 | Voyageuse · as Erica |
| 2017 | Keeping Faith (TV Series) · as Judge Owens |
| 2017 | Hochelaga, Land of Souls · as Sarah Walker |
| 2017 | Strike (TV Series) · as Lady Yvette Bristow |
| 2014 | Under Milk Wood · as Mrs. Pugh |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents (TV Series) · as May |
| 2009 | Missing (2009) (TV Series) · as Beth Murphy |
| 2006 | The Gigolos · as Baroness James |
| 2006 | Lewis (TV Series) · as Adele Goffe |
| 2004 | The Murder Room (TV Series) · as Marie Strickland |
| 2003 | The Last Detective (TV Series) · as Vera Dulciman |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | New Tricks (TV Series) · as Lady Elizabeth Linden Warner |
| 2003 | Stalin: Inside the Terror · as Narrator |
| 2001 | Attila (TV Series) · as Grandmother |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Joan Bartlett |
| 2000 | Cinderella · as Evil Baroness |
| 1999 | The Magician's House (TV Series) · as Meg Lewis |
| 1999 | Aristocrats (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1999 | Holby City (TV Series) · as Lily Sinclair |
| 1998 | Alice Through the Looking Glass · as Red Queen |
| 1998 | The Scold's Bridle · as Mathilda Gillespie |
| 1998 | The Scold's Bridle (TV Series) · as Mathilda |
| 1997 | House of America · as Mam |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Lady Annabel Butler |
| 1997 | La Femme Nikita (TV Series) · as Adrian |
| 1997 | Ivanhoe (1997) (TV Series) · as Queen Eleanor Of Aquitaine |
| 1996 | Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Beattie Elletson |
| 1996 | Ballykissangel (TV Series) · as Consuela Dunphy |
| 1995 | The Vacillations of Poppy Carew · as Calypso |
| 1994 | A Mind to Kill (TV Series) · as Rachel Hardcastle |
| 1994 | The Mousehole Cat · as Narrator |
| 1993 | The Return of the Borrowers (TV Series) · as Mrs. Driver |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence · as Mrs. Archer |
| 1993 | Heidi (1993) (TV Series) · as Frau Sesemann |
| 1992 | The Borrowers (TV Series) · as Mrs. Driver |
| 1992 | Covington Cross (TV Series) · as Lady Isabel |
| 1992 | Shortland Street (TV Series) · as Vivienne Lindstrom |
| 1991 | The Black Candle · as Daisy Barnett |
| 1991 | Tonight At 8:30 (TV Series) · as Barbara Faber |
| 1990 | Perfect Scoundrels (TV Series) · as Mother Aloysius |
| 1989 | Valmont · as Madame De Volanges |
| 1989 | Shadow of the Noose (TV Series) · as Lady Scott |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Mrs. Laura Upward |
| 1988 | David Macaulay: Pyramid · as Mersyankh (voice) |
| 1988 | The Snow Spider (TV Series) · as Nain Griffiths |
| 1987 | Vanity Fair (1987) (TV Series) · as Miss Matilda Crawley |
| 1987 | The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (TV Series) · as Duchess Of Windsor |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Bridget Haas |
| 1985 | Ewoks: The Battle for Endor · as Charal |
| 1985 | The Doctor and the Devils · as Annabella Rock |
| 1984 | Dune · as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam |
| 1982 | Smiley's People (TV Series) |
| 1981 | Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV Series) · as Clementine Churchill |
| 1981 | Clash of the Titans · as Cassiopeia |
| 1981 | Barriers (TV Series) · as Mrs Dalgleish |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) · as Mrs. Henska |
| 1980 | Nijinsky · as Lady Ripon |
| 1979 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Series) · as Ann Smiley |
| 1979 | Crime and Punishment (1979) (TV Series) · as Katerina Ivanovna |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) · as Hermione |
| 1978 | Warrior Queen (TV Series) · as Queen Boudicca |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1976 | I, Claudius (TV Series) · as Livia Drusilla |
| 1975 | How Green Was My Valley (TV Series) · as Beth Morgan |
| 1975 | Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1974 | Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (TV Series) · as Mrs. Patrick Campbell |
| 1974 | Shoulder to Shoulder (TV Series) · as Emmeline Pankhurst |
| 1973 | Playhouse (TV Series) · as Janet Achurch |
| 1971 | Under Milk Wood · as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard |
| 1971 | Murphy's War · as Hayden |
| 1969 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips · as Ursula Mossbank |
| 1969 | Laughter in the Dark · as Lady Pamela More |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Sally Stirling |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as May Bartram |
| 1965 | Play of the Month (TV Series) · as Anna Voinitseva, Widow |
| 1965 | Young Cassidy · as Ella |
| 1964 | The Other World of Winston Churchill · as Lady Lavery |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | Espionage (TV Series) · as Anna |
| 1962 | The Longest Day · as Wrns Officer (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Anna Mahr |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Barbara |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Lady Lavery |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Countess Else Von Dietlof |