Siân Phillips
Acting
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…
Filmography
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Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
2024
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Doctor Who
2024
Siân Phillips at 90
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Remembers…
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021
A Year in the Beacons
2021
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Dream Horse
2021
A Christmas Carol
2020
Summerland
2020
McDonald & Dodds
2020
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
Time & Again
2019
Be Happy!
2019
Good Omens
2019
Nureyev
2018
To Provide All People
To Provide All People
2018
Miss Dalí
2018
Voyageuse
2018
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Under Milk Wood
2014
A Picture of London
A Picture of London
2012
Playhouse Presents
2012
Lovesong
2012
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Murder Room
2004
Still: Here/Now
Still: Here/Now
2003
The Last Detective
2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
Attila
2001
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Come and Go
Come and Go
2000
The Magician's House
1999
Aristocrats
1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
The Scold's Bridle
1998
The Scold's Bridle
1998
Arthouse
Arthouse
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
La Femme Nikita
1997
Ivanhoe
1997
House of America
1997
Silent Witness
1996
The Mousehole Cat
1995
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
The Return of the Borrowers
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
The Age of Innocence
1993
Heidi
1993
The Sherman Plays
The Sherman Plays
1993
The Borrowers
1992
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
The Black Candle
1991
Emlyn's Moon
1990
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
Red Empire
Red Empire
1990
Dark River
1990
Valmont
1989
Shadow of the Noose
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
The Snow Spider
1988
Vanity Fair
1987
A Killing on the Exchange
1987
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
Dune
1984
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
Clash of the Titans
1981