Siân 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.
Acting (56 movies)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Dune
1984
Clash of the Titans
1981
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
The Age of Innocence
1993
The Snow Spider
1988
Emlyn's Moon
1990
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
Murphy's War
1971
Under Milk Wood
1972
Becket
1964
Valmont
1989
The Murder Room
2004
Eh, Joe?
1966
Young Cassidy
1965
Nijinsky
1980
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Red Empire
1990
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
Under Milk Wood
2014
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
Lovesong
2012
The Black Candle
1991
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
Dark River
1990
House of America
1997
Heartbreak House
1977
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
Voyageuse
2018
The Mousehole Cat
1995
Miss Dalí
2018
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
A Christmas Carol
2020
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
Nureyev
2018
Dream Horse
2021
Aristocrats
1999
Be Happy!
2019
Summerland
2020
The Longest Day
1962
Time & Again
2019
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Carpathian Eagle
1980
Laughter in the Dark
1969
The Achurch Letters
1977
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood | 2021 | Writer |