Siân Phillips

Known for ActingBorn 1933-05-14 (age 93)Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

The Mousehole Cat

Dark River

Thief

Eh, Joe?

Espionage

The Snow Spider

Time & Again

Still: Here/Now

Red Empire

Shadow of the Noose

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Apple Cider Vinegar

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Good Omens

To Provide All People

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Emlyn's Moon

The Last Detective

Crime and Punishment

McDonald & Dodds

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty

Platonov

A Christmas Carol

Summerland

Lewis

I, Claudius

Silent Witness

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Nureyev

Voyageuse

Midsomer Murders

La Femme Nikita

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Longest Day

Remembers…

Dream Horse

The Snow Spider

Half Hour Story

Heidi

Ivanhoe

Stalin: Inside the Terror

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

The Age of Innocence

The Return of the Borrowers

The Chestnut Soldier