Siân Phillips
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Siân Phillips

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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.

Films Featuring Siân Phillips

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Dune

19846.2

Clash of the Titans

19816.9

The Mountain That Had To Be Painted

2011

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

19855.4

The Age of Innocence

19937.0

Emlyn's Moon

19908.0

The Snow Spider

19889.5

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

2021

The Chestnut Soldier

19917.0

Murphy's War

19716.1

Under Milk Wood

19726.1

Becket

19647.2

Valmont

19896.7

The Murder Room

20046.5

Eh, Joe?

196610.0

Come and Go

Come and Go

20006.0

A Picture of London

A Picture of London

2012

Young Cassidy

19656.4

Nijinsky

19804.9

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.3

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

19748.0

The Doctor and the Devils

19856.2

Under Milk Wood

20146.0

The Scold's Bridle

19986.4

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

20228.0

It’s Dearer After Midnight

1968

Apple Cider Vinegar

20248.0

Thief

Thief

196810.0

Don Juan in Hell

Don Juan in Hell

1962

Lovesong

2012

The Black Candle

19915.0

Siân Phillips at 90

Siân Phillips at 90

2023

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

20166.3

Stalin: Inside the Terror

20037.0

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

19955.0

Alice Through the Looking Glass

19985.2

Dark River

199010.0

House of America

19975.7

Heartbreak House

1977

Hochelaga, Land of Souls

20174.8

Voyageuse

20187.3

The Mousehole Cat

199510.0

Miss Dalí

20185.7

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

19696.8

To Provide All People

To Provide All People

20188.0

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

A Christmas Carol

20207.5

How Many Miles to Babylon?

1982

Nureyev

20187.3

Dream Horse

20217.0

Aristocrats

19996.0

Be Happy!

20195.5

Summerland

20207.5

The Longest Day

19627.6

Time & Again

20199.0

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

20196.0

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

20027.0

Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime

20006.7

Platonov

Platonov

19718.0

Carpathian Eagle

19805.4

Still: Here/Now

Still: Here/Now

20039.0

Laughter in the Dark

19694.3

The Achurch Letters

1977

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

20246.0

Frank and Percy

Frank and Percy

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

20257.5

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0