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.
Acted in
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
as Voice
Doctor Who
2024
as Enid Meadows
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
as Self
The Chelsea Detective
2022
as Grandma Dix
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021
as Self - Narrator
A Year in the Beacons
2021
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Dream Horse
2021
as Maureen
A Christmas Carol
2020
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Summerland
2020
as Margaret Corey
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Agnes Gillian
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
as Madame Neilsen
Time & Again
2019
as Eleanor
Be Happy!
2019
Good Omens
2019
as Mr. Henderson
Nureyev
2018
as Narrator
To Provide All People
2018
as Patient
Miss Dalí
2018
as Anna Maria Dalí
Voyageuse
2018
as Erica
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
as Sarah Walker
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Under Milk Wood
2014
as Mrs. Pugh
A Picture of London
2012
as Narrator
Lovesong
2012
as Maggie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
as Narrator
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
The Murder Room
2004
as Marie Strickland
Still: Here/Now
2003
as Self
The Last Detective
2003
as Vera Dulciman
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
as Narrator
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
Attila
2001
as Grandmother
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
as Evil Baroness
Come and Go
2000
as Ru
The Magician's House
1999
as Meg Lewis
Aristocrats
1999
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
1998
as Mathilda
The Scold's Bridle
1998
as Mathilda Gillespie
Arthouse
1997
as Self - Commentary
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Lady Annabel Butler
La Femme Nikita
1997
as Adrian
Ivanhoe
1997
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
House of America
1997
as Mam
Silent Witness
1996
as Beattie Elletson
The Mousehole Cat
1995
as Narrator
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
as Calypso
The Borrowers
1993
as Mrs. Driver
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
as Mrs. Driver
The Age of Innocence
1993
as Mrs. Archer
Heidi
1993
as Frau Sesemann
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
as Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
1991
as Daisy Barnett
Emlyn's Moon
1990
as Nain Griffiths
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Mother Aloysius
Red Empire
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Dark River
1990
as Mrs. Blessington
Valmont
1989
as Madame de Volanges
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Mrs. Laura Upward
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Mersyankh (voice)
The Snow Spider
1988
as Nain Griffiths
Vanity Fair
1987
as Miss Matilda Crawley
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
as Duchess of Windsor
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
as Charal
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
as Annabella Rock
Dune
1984
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Smiley's People
1982
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
as Mrs Alicia Moore
Clash of the Titans
1981
as Cassiopeia
Carpathian Eagle
1980
as Mrs. Henska
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Mrs. Henska
Nijinsky
1980
as Lady Ripon
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
as Ann Smiley
Crime and Punishment
1979
as Katerina Ivanovna
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Hermione
Warrior Queen
1978
as Queen Boudicca
Heartbreak House
1977
as Hesione Hushabye
The Achurch Letters
1977
as Janet Achurch
I, Claudius
1976
as Livia
I, Claudius
1976
as Livia Drusilla
How Green Was My Valley
1975
as Beth Morgan
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974
as Emmeline Pankhurst
Under Milk Wood
1972
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Platonov
1971
as Anna
Murphy's War
1971
as Hayden
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
as Ursula Mossbank
Laughter in the Dark
1969
as Lady Pamela More
Thief
1968
as Woman
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
as Jo
Eh, Joe?
1966
as Voice
Young Cassidy
1965
as Ella
Becket
1964
as Gwendolen
Don Juan in Hell
1962
as Dona Ana
The Longest Day
1962
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Lady Lavery