
Siân Phillips
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.
- Known ForActing
- Born14 May 1933 (age 92)
- Place of BirthGwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Siân Phillips

- Known ForActing
- Born14 May 1933 (age 92)
- Place of BirthGwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales

Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Siân Phillips at 90
2023

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021

Dream Horse
2021

A Christmas Carol
2020

Summerland
2020

Be Happy!
2019

Time & Again
2019

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019

Voyageuse
2018

Miss Dalí
2018
To Provide All People
2018

Nureyev
2018

Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016

Under Milk Wood
2014
A Picture of London
2012

Lovesong
2012

The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007

The Murder Room
2004

Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
Still: Here/Now
2003

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
Come and Go
2000

Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000

Aristocrats
1999
The Scold's Bridle
1998

Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998

House of America
1997

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995

The Mousehole Cat
1995

The Age of Innocence
1993

The Chestnut Soldier
1991

The Black Candle
1991

Emlyn's Moon
1990

Red Empire
1990

Dark River
1990

Valmont
1989

David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989

The Snow Spider
1988

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985

The Doctor and the Devils
1985

Dune
1984

How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982

Clash of the Titans
1981

Nijinsky
1980

Carpathian Eagle
1980

Heartbreak House
1977

The Achurch Letters
1977

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974

Under Milk Wood
1972

Murphy's War
1971
Platonov
1971

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969

Laughter in the Dark
1969

It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
Thief
1968

Eh, Joe?
1966

Young Cassidy
1965

Becket
1964
Don Juan in Hell
1962
