Siân Phillips
Acting
Born May 14, 1933 · Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
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.
Films (67)
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Dream Horse
2021
A Christmas Carol
2020
Summerland
2020
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
Time & Again
2019
Be Happy!
2019
Nureyev
2018
To Provide All People
2018
Miss Dalí
2018
Voyageuse
2018
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Under Milk Wood
2014
A Picture of London
2012
Lovesong
2012
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Murder Room
2004
Still: Here/Now
2003
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Come and Go
2000
Aristocrats
1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
The Scold's Bridle
1998
House of America
1997
The Mousehole Cat
1995
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
The Age of Innocence
1993
Animated Shakespeare | Macbeth
1992
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
The Black Candle
1991
Emlyn's Moon
1990
Dark River
1990
Valmont
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
The Snow Spider
1988
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
Dune
1984
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
Clash of the Titans
1981
Carpathian Eagle
1980
Nijinsky
1980
Heartbreak House
1977
The Achurch Letters
1977
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Under Milk Wood
1972
Platonov
1971
Murphy's War
1971
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
Laughter in the Dark
1969
Thief
1968
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
Eh, Joe?
1966
Young Cassidy
1965
Becket
1964
Don Juan in Hell
1962
The Longest Day
1962