Siân Phillips (born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales) 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.
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Movie | The Murder Room | Marie Strickland | 2004-10-31 |
Movie | Still: Here/Now | Self | 2003-11-01 |
Movie | Stalin: Inside the Terror | Narrator | 2003-01-08 |
Series | Attila | Grandmother | 2001-01-30 |
Movie | Come and Go | Ru | 2000-01-01 |
Series | The Magician's House | Meg Lewis | 1999-10-31 |
Movie | Aristocrats | Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox | 1999-06-20 |
Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Red Queen | 1998-12-26 |
Movie | The Scold's Bridle | Mathilda Gillespie | 1998-04-10 |
Series | Ivanhoe | Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine | 1997-01-12 |
Movie | House of America | Mam | 1997-01-01 |
Movie | The Vacillations of Poppy Carew | Calypso | 1995-03-05 |
Movie | The Age of Innocence | Mrs. Archer | 1993-09-10 |
Series | Heidi | Frau Sesemann | 1993-07-18 |
Movie | The Black Candle | Daisy Barnett | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Red Empire | Narrator (voice) | 1990-01-02 |
Movie | Dark River | Mrs. Blessington | 1990-01-01 |
Movie | Valmont | Madame de Volanges | 1989-11-17 |
Movie | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Mersyankh (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
Series | Vanity Fair | Miss Matilda Crawley | 1987-09-06 |
Series | The Two Mrs. Grenvilles | Duchess of Windsor | 1987-02-08 |
Movie | Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | Charal | 1985-11-24 |
Movie | The Doctor and the Devils | Annabella Rock | 1985-10-04 |
Movie | Dune | Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam | 1984-12-14 |
Series | Smiley's People | Unknown | 1982-09-20 |
Movie | How Many Miles to Babylon? | Mrs Alicia Moore | 1982-02-26 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Cassiopeia | 1981-06-12 |
Movie | Carpathian Eagle | Mrs. Henska | 1980-11-08 |
Movie | Nijinsky | Lady Ripon | 1980-03-20 |
Series | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Ann Smiley | 1979-09-10 |
Series | Warrior Queen | Queen Boudicca | 1978-02-20 |
Movie | Heartbreak House | Hesione Hushabye | 1977-05-19 |
Series | I, Claudius | Livia Drusilla | 1976-09-20 |
Series | How Green Was My Valley | Beth Morgan | 1975-12-29 |
Movie | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | 1974-11-05 |
Series | Shoulder to Shoulder | Emmeline Pankhurst | 1974-04-03 |
Movie | Under Milk Wood | Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard | 1972-01-27 |
Movie | Murphy's War | Hayden | 1971-01-27 |
Movie | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Ursula Mossbank | 1969-11-05 |
Movie | Laughter in the Dark | Lady Pamela More | 1969-05-11 |
Movie | Thief | Woman | 1968-07-24 |
Movie | Eh, Joe? | Voice | 1966-07-04 |
Movie | Young Cassidy | Ella | 1965-02-25 |
Movie | Becket | Gwendolen | 1964-03-11 |
Movie | The Longest Day | WRNS Officer (uncredited) | 1962-09-25 |