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.
Valmont
as Madame de Volanges
Dune
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
The Longest Day
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Clash of the Titans
as Cassiopeia
Summerland
as Margaret Corey
The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Archer
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
as Charal
Becket
as Gwendolen
Dream Horse
as Maureen
To Provide All People
as Patient
Murphy's War
as Hayden
Lovesong
as Maggie
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Ursula Mossbank
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Red Queen
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Mersyankh (voice)
Nijinsky
as Lady Ripon
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
Carpathian Eagle
as Mrs. Henska
The Doctor and the Devils
as Annabella Rock
The Black Candle
as Daisy Barnett
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Young Cassidy
as Ella
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
as Sarah Walker
A Christmas Carol
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Pugh
Miss Dalí
as Anna Maria Dalí
Laughter in the Dark
as Lady Pamela More
Platonov
as Anna
The Murder Room
as Marie Strickland
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
Dark River
as Mrs. Blessington
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Nureyev
as Narrator
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
as Calypso
Aristocrats
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Thief
as Woman
Frank and Percy
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Stalin: Inside the Terror
as Narrator
The Achurch Letters
as Janet Achurch
House of America
as Mam
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
as Madame Neilsen
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
as Evil Baroness
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
The Snow Spider
as Nain Griffiths
Still: Here/Now
as Self
It’s Dearer After Midnight
as Jo
The Scold's Bridle
as Mathilda Gillespie
Come and Go
as Ru
How Many Miles to Babylon?
as Mrs Alicia Moore
Heartbreak House
as Hesione Hushabye
Voyageuse
as Erica
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
as Narrator
Eh, Joe?
as Voice
The Chestnut Soldier
as Nain Griffiths
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Voice
Be Happy!
Don Juan in Hell
as Dona Ana
A Picture of London
as Narrator
Siân Phillips at 90
as Self
The Mousehole Cat
as Narrator
Emlyn's Moon
as Nain Griffiths
Time & Again
as Eleanor