Siân Phillips

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1933-05-14 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales

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...

Acting

1984

Dune

as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

1981

Clash of the Titans

as Cassiopeia

1993

The Age of Innocence

as Mrs. Archer

1988

The Snow Spider

as Nain Griffiths

1990

Emlyn's Moon

as Nain Griffiths

2021

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon

1991

The Chestnut Soldier

as Nain Griffiths

1971

Murphy's War

as Hayden

1972

Under Milk Wood

as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard

1964

Becket

as Gwendolen

1989

Valmont

as Madame de Volanges

2004

The Murder Room

as Marie Strickland

1966

Eh, Joe?

as Voice

2000

2012

1965

1980

Nijinsky

as Lady Ripon

1990

Red Empire

as Narrator (voice)

1974

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

1985

The Doctor and the Devils

as Annabella Rock

2014

Under Milk Wood

as Mrs. Pugh

1998

The Scold's Bridle

as Mathilda Gillespie

1968

Thief

as Woman

1962

Don Juan in Hell

as Dona Ana

2012

Lovesong

as Maggie

1991

The Black Candle

as Daisy Barnett

1990

Dark River

as Mrs. Blessington

1977

Heartbreak House

as Hesione Hushabye

2017

2018

Voyageuse

as Erica

1995

2018

Miss Dalí

as Anna Maria Dalí

1969

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Ursula Mossbank

2018

1989

David Macaulay: Pyramid

as Mersyankh (voice)

2020

A Christmas Carol

as Grandmother / narrator (voice)

1982

How Many Miles to Babylon?

as Mrs Alicia Moore

2018

Nureyev

as Narrator

2021

Dream Horse

as Maureen

1999

Aristocrats

as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox

2020

Summerland

as Margaret Corey

1962

The Longest Day

as WRNS Officer (uncredited)

2019

Time & Again

as Eleanor

2000

1971

Platonov

as Anna

1980

Carpathian Eagle

as Mrs. Henska

2003

1969

Laughter in the Dark

as Lady Pamela More

1977

The Achurch Letters

as Janet Achurch

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