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.
Filmography
all 103
Movies 61
TV Shows 42
self 13
Narrator 7
Voice 2
Writer 1
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (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)
Inside Culture (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 (2018)
Miss Dalí (2018)
Voyageuse (2018)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)
Crazy Moon (2016)
Under Milk Wood (2014)
A Picture of London (2012)
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted (2011)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
The Murder Room (2004)
Still: Here/Now (2003)
The Last Detective (2003)
Stalin: Inside the Terror (2003)
I, Claudius: A Television Epic (2002)
Attila (2001)
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime (2000)
Come and Go (2000)
The Magician's House (1999)
Aristocrats (1999)
Aristocrats (1999)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
The Scold's Bridle (1998)
The Scold's Bridle (1998)
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 Borrowers (1993)
The Return of the Borrowers (1993)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Heidi (1993)
The Borrowers (1992)
The Chestnut Soldier (1991)
Tonight at 8.30 (1991)
The Black Candle (1991)
Freddie and Max (1990)
Emlyn's Moon (1990)
Perfect Scoundrels (1990)
Red Empire (1990)
Dark River (1990)
Valmont (1989)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
David Macaulay: Pyramid (1989)
The Snow Spider (1988)
Vanity Fair (1987)
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Dune (1984)
Smiley's People (1982)
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Carpathian Eagle (1980)
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Nijinsky (1980)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Crime and Punishment (1979)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Warrior Queen (1978)
Heartbreak House (1977)
I, Claudius (1976)
How Green Was My Valley (1975)
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
The Man Outside (1972)
Under Milk Wood (1972)
Platonov (1971)
Murphy's War (1971)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Laughter in the Dark (1969)
Thief (1968)
Eh, Joe? (1966)
Young Cassidy (1965)
Becket (1964)
The Longest Day (1962)
Tony Awards (1956)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Other Man
Network First
Welsh Greats
The Murder Room
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1933-05-14 (90 years old)
Birth NameJane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
Birth PlaceGwaun-Cae-Gurwen, United Kingdom
RelationshipsRobin Sachs (1979-01-01 - 1991-01-01), Peter O'Toole (1959-01-01 - 1979-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsSian Phillips, Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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