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.
Filmography (120 titles)
7.5MovieRichard Burton: Wild Genius
Self · 2025
8.0ShowEmperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Narrator · 2024
8.0MovieApple Cider Vinegar
Voice · 2024
6.0MovieAlec Guinness: A Class Act
self · 2024
6.4ShowDoctor Who
Enid Meadows · 2024
Siân Phillips at 90
Self · 2023
7.8MoviePeter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self · 2022
7.0ShowRemembers…
Self · 2022
8.0MovieStephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self · 2022
6.3ShowThe Chelsea Detective
Grandma Dix · 2022
ShowWonders of the Celtic Deep
Self - Narrator · 2021
ShowA Year in the Beacons
Narrator · 2021
MovieNational Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon · 2021
7.0MovieDream Horse
Maureen · 2021
7.5MovieA Christmas Carol
Grandmother / narrator (voice) · 2020
7.5MovieSummerland
Margaret Corey · 2020
7.6ShowMcDonald & Dodds
Agnes Gillian · 2020
6.0MovieNational Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Madame Neilsen · 2019
9.0MovieTime & Again
Eleanor · 2019
5.5MovieBe Happy!
2019
8.0ShowGood Omens
Mr. Henderson · 2019
7.3MovieNureyev
Narrator · 2018
To Provide All People
Patient · 2018
5.7MovieMiss Dalí
Anna Maria Dalí · 2018
7.3MovieVoyageuse
Erica · 2018
5.1MovieHochelaga, Land of Souls
Sarah Walker · 2017
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
6.0MovieUnder Milk Wood
Mrs. Pugh · 2014
A Picture of London
Narrator · 2012
6.0ShowPlayhouse Presents
May · 2012