Siân Phillips
Acting
- Born:
- 1933-05-14
- Place of birth:
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Frank and Percy
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Apple Cider Vinegar
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Doctor Who
Siân Phillips at 90
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Remembers…
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
The Chelsea Detective
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
A Year in the Beacons
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Dream Horse
A Christmas Carol
Summerland
McDonald & Dodds
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Time & Again
Be Happy!
Good Omens
Nureyev
To Provide All People
Miss Dalí
Voyageuse
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Under Milk Wood
A Picture of London
Playhouse Presents
Lovesong
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Lewis
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
The Murder Room
Still: Here/Now
The Last Detective
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Stalin: Inside the Terror
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Attila
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Come and Go
The Magician's House
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Scold's Bridle
The Scold's Bridle
Arthouse
Midsomer Murders
La Femme Nikita
Ivanhoe
House of America
Silent Witness
The Mousehole Cat
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
The Return of the Borrowers
The Age of Innocence
Heidi
The Sherman Plays