1933-05-14 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.
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Apple Cider Vinegar | Voice | 2024-10-31 |
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | 2024-09-03 |
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Siân Phillips at 90 | Self | 2023-12-29 |
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood | Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon | 2021-06-16 |
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Dream Horse | Maureen | 2021-05-21 |
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A Christmas Carol | Grandmother / narrator (voice) | 2020-12-04 |
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Summerland | Margaret Corey | 2020-07-24 |
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Be Happy! | 2019-06-16 | |
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Time & Again | Eleanor | 2019-07-21 |
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National Theatre Live: Les Blancs | Madame Neilsen | 2019-09-01 |
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Voyageuse | Erica | 2018-03-01 |
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To Provide All People | Patient | 2018-06-28 |
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Miss Dalí | Anna Maria Dalí | 2018-04-06 |
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Nureyev | Narrator | 2018-09-25 |
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Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes | Sarah Walker | 2017-09-09 |
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Aberfan: The Green Hollow | 2016-10-21 | |
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Under Milk Wood | Mrs. Pugh | 2014-06-01 |
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Lovesong | Maggie | 2012-02-01 |
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A Picture of London | Narrator | 2012-05-26 |
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The Mountain That Had To Be Painted | Narrator | 2011-05-18 |
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
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The Murder Room | Marie Strickland | 2004-10-31 |
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Stalin: Inside the Terror | Narrator | 2003-01-08 |
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Dal: Yma/Nawr | Self | 2003-11-01 |
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I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | 2002-09-30 |
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Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime | Evil Baroness | 2000-01-02 |
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Come and Go | Ru | 2000-01-01 |
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Aristocrats | Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox | 1999-06-20 |
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The Scold's Bridle | Mathilda Gillespie | 1998-04-10 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Red Queen | 1998-12-26 |
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House of America | Mam | 1997-01-01 |
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The Mousehole Cat | Narrator | 1995-12-24 |
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The Vacillations of Poppy Carew | Calypso | 1995-03-05 |
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The Age of Innocence | Mrs. Archer | 1993-09-10 |
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The Black Candle | Daisy Barnett | 1991-01-01 |
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The Chestnut Soldier | Nain Griffiths | 1991-11-20 |
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Red Empire | Narrator (voice) | 1990-01-02 |
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Emlyn's Moon | Nain Griffiths | 1990-09-06 |
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Dark River | Mrs. Blessington | 1990-01-01 |
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David Macaulay: Pyramid | Mersyankh (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
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Valmont | Madame de Volanges | 1989-11-17 |
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The Snow Spider | Nain Griffiths | 1988-11-26 |
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The Doctor and the Devils | Annabella Rock | 1985-10-04 |
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | Charal | 1985-11-24 |
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Dune | Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam | 1984-12-14 |
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How Many Miles to Babylon? | Mrs Alicia Moore | 1982-02-26 |
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Clash of the Titans | Cassiopeia | 1981-06-12 |
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Carpathian Eagle | Mrs. Henska | 1980-11-08 |
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Nijinsky | Lady Ripon | 1980-03-20 |
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Heartbreak House | Hesione Hushabye | 1977-05-19 |
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The Achurch Letters | Janet Achurch | 1977-01-12 |
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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | 1974-11-05 |
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Under Milk Wood | Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard | 1972-01-27 |
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Platonov | Anna | 1971-05-23 |
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Murphy's War | Hayden | 1971-01-27 |
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Laughter in the Dark | Lady Pamela More | 1969-05-11 |
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Ursula Mossbank | 1969-11-05 |
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Thief | Woman | 1968-07-24 |
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It’s Dearer After Midnight | Jo | 1968-02-23 |
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Eh, Joe? | Voice | 1966-07-04 |
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Young Cassidy | Ella | 1965-02-25 |
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Becket | Gwendolen | 1964-03-11 |
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The Longest Day | WRNS Officer (uncredited) | 1962-09-25 |
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Don Juan in Hell | Dona Ana | 1962-11-06 |
