Cast
Siân Phillips
Acting
Cast
Siân Phillips
Known for
Acting
Born
1933-05-14
From
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Also known as Sian Phillips, Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
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.
★6.2
MOVIE1984
Dune
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
★7.6
MOVIE1962
The Longest Day
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1981
Clash of the Titans
as Cassiopeia
★5.1
MOVIE2017
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
as Sarah Walker
★7.0
MOVIE1993
The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Archer
★6.7
MOVIE1989
Valmont
as Madame de Volanges
★8.0
MOVIE2018
To Provide All People
as Patient
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2021
Dream Horse
as Maureen
★7.0
MOVIE2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1968
Thief
as Woman
★5.5
MOVIE2019
Be Happy!
★5.4
MOVIE1985
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
as Charal
MOVIE1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Mersyankh (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1990
Dark River
as Mrs. Blessington
★7.5
MOVIE2025
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE2020
Summerland
as Margaret Corey
MOVIE2023
Siân Phillips at 90
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1972
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
★6.1
MOVIE1971
Murphy's War
as Hayden
★7.2
MOVIE1964
Becket
as Gwendolen
★6.5
MOVIE2004
The Murder Room
as Marie Strickland
★7.5
MOVIE2020
A Christmas Carol
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1969
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Ursula Mossbank
★5.7
MOVIE1997
House of America
as Mam
★8.0
MOVIE1974
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
★6.4
MOVIE1965
Young Cassidy
as Ella
★6.2
MOVIE1985
The Doctor and the Devils
as Annabella Rock
★7.0
MOVIE2003
Stalin: Inside the Terror
as Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE2019
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
as Madame Neilsen
★6.3
MOVIE2016
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
★7.3
MOVIE2018
Voyageuse
as Erica
MOVIE2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
MOVIE1968
It’s Dearer After Midnight
as Jo
MOVIETBA
Frank and Percy
★6.4
MOVIE1998
The Scold's Bridle
as Mathilda Gillespie
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
as Evil Baroness
★9.0
MOVIE2019
Time & Again
as Eleanor
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Pugh
MOVIE1977
The Achurch Letters
as Janet Achurch
★5.2
MOVIE1998
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Red Queen
MOVIE2012
Lovesong
as Maggie
MOVIE1982
How Many Miles to Babylon?
as Mrs Alicia Moore
★4.9
MOVIE1980
Nijinsky
as Lady Ripon
★5.0
MOVIE1991
The Black Candle
as Daisy Barnett
★4.3
MOVIE1969
Laughter in the Dark
as Lady Pamela More
★7.0
MOVIE1991
The Chestnut Soldier
as Nain Griffiths
★7.8
MOVIE2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2000
Come and Go
as Ru
MOVIE2021
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
★8.0
MOVIE2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2003
Still: Here/Now
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1980
Carpathian Eagle
as Mrs. Henska
★5.7
MOVIE2018
Miss Dalí
as Anna Maria Dalí
MOVIE1962
Don Juan in Hell
as Dona Ana
★6.0
MOVIE1999
Aristocrats
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
★8.0
MOVIE2024
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Voice
★10.0
MOVIE1966
Eh, Joe?
as Voice
★8.0
MOVIE1971
Platonov
as Anna
★9.5
MOVIE1988
The Snow Spider
as Nain Griffiths
★6.0
MOVIE2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
MOVIE1977
Heartbreak House
as Hesione Hushabye
★7.3
MOVIE2018
Nureyev
as Narrator
MOVIE2012
A Picture of London
as Narrator
★10.0
MOVIE1995
The Mousehole Cat
as Narrator
★5.0
MOVIE1995
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
as Calypso
★8.0
MOVIE1990
Emlyn's Moon
as Nain Griffiths
MOVIE2011
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
as Narrator