Siân Phillips
Acting
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.
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Movie
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
2024 · Series
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024 · Movie
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · Movie
Doctor Who
2024 · Series
Siân Phillips at 90
2023 · Movie
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Movie
Remembers…
2022 · Series
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022 · Movie
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Series
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021 · Series
A Year in the Beacons
2021 · Series
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021 · Movie
Dream Horse
2021 · Movie
A Christmas Carol
2020 · Movie
Summerland
2020 · Movie
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · Series
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019 · Movie
Time & Again
2019 · Movie
Be Happy!
2019 · Movie
Good Omens
2019 · Series
Nureyev
2018 · Movie
To Provide All People
2018 · Movie
Miss Dalí
2018 · Movie
Voyageuse
2018 · Movie
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017 · Movie
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016 · Movie
Under Milk Wood
2014 · Movie
A Picture of London
2012 · Movie
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Series
Lovesong
2012 · Movie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011 · Movie
Lewis
2007 · Series
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Movie
The Murder Room
2004 · Movie
Still: Here/Now
2003 · Movie
The Last Detective
2003 · Series
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Movie
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003 · Movie
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002 · Movie
Attila
2001 · Series
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000 · Movie
Come and Go
2000 · Movie
The Magician's House
1999 · Series
Aristocrats
1999 · Movie
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998 · Movie
The Scold's Bridle
1998 · Series
The Scold's Bridle
1998 · Movie
Arthouse
1997 · Series
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
La Femme Nikita
1997 · Series
Ivanhoe
1997 · Series
House of America
1997 · Movie
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
The Mousehole Cat
1995 · Movie
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995 · Movie
The Return of the Borrowers
1993 · Series
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Movie
Heidi
1993 · Series
The Sherman Plays
1993 · Series
The Borrowers
1992 · Series
The Chestnut Soldier
1991 · Movie
Tonight at 8.30
1991 · Series
The Black Candle
1991 · Movie
Emlyn's Moon
1990 · Movie
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Series
Red Empire
1990 · Series
Dark River
1990 · Movie
Valmont
1989 · Movie
Shadow of the Noose
1989 · Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Movie
The Snow Spider
1988 · Movie
Vanity Fair
1987 · Series
A Killing on the Exchange
1987 · Series
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987 · Series
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985 · Movie
The Doctor and the Devils
1985 · Movie
Dune
1984 · Movie
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982 · Movie
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981 · Series
Clash of the Titans
1981 · Movie
Carpathian Eagle
1980 · Movie
Hammer House of Horror
1980 · Series
Nijinsky
1980 · Movie
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 · Series
Crime and Punishment
1979 · Series
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
Warrior Queen
1978 · Series
Heartbreak House
1977 · Movie
The Achurch Letters
1977 · Movie
I, Claudius
1976 · Series
How Green Was My Valley
1975 · Series
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974 · Movie
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Under Milk Wood
1972 · Movie
Platonov
1971 · Movie
Murphy's War
1971 · Movie
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969 · Movie
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Series
Laughter in the Dark
1969 · Movie
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Series
The Sex Game
1968 · Series
Thief
1968 · Movie
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968 · Movie
City '68
1967 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
Half Hour Story
1967 · Series
Eh, Joe?
1966 · Movie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Young Cassidy
1965 · Movie
Becket
1964 · Movie
Espionage
1963 · Series
Don Juan in Hell
1962 · Movie
The Longest Day
1962 · Movie
Drama 61-67
1961 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Frank and Percy
Movie