Siân Phillips
Actor
- Born
- May 14, 1933 (age 93) · 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.
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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
Dune
December 14, 1984
The Age of Innocence
September 10, 1993
The Longest Day
September 25, 1962
Clash of the Titans
June 12, 1981
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
November 24, 1985
Valmont
November 17, 1989
Summerland
July 24, 2020
Becket
March 11, 1964
Dream Horse
May 21, 2021
Murphy's War
January 13, 1971
Alice Through the Looking Glass
December 26, 1998
The Doctor and the Devils
October 4, 1985
Acting68
- 2026Frank and Percy
- 2025Richard Burton: Wild Genius as Self
- 2024Apple Cider Vinegar as Voice
- 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- 2023Siân Phillips at 90 as Self
- 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
- 2021National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
- 2021Dream Horse as Maureen
- 2020A Christmas Carol