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 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.
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
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Apple Cider Vinegar
Voice
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
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Siân Phillips at 90
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Dream Horse
Maureen
A Christmas Carol
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Summerland
Margaret Corey
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Madame Neilsen
Time & Again
Eleanor
Be Happy!
Nureyev
Narrator
To Provide All People
Patient
Miss Dalí
Anna Maria Dalí
Voyageuse
Erica
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Sarah Walker
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Pugh
A Picture of London
Narrator
Lovesong
Maggie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Narrator
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Murder Room
Marie Strickland
Still: Here/Now
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Stalin: Inside the Terror
Narrator
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
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Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Evil Baroness
Come and Go
Ru
Aristocrats
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie
House of America
Mam
The Mousehole Cat
Narrator
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Calypso
The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Archer
Animated Shakespeare | Macbeth
Traethydd/Narrator
The Chestnut Soldier
Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
Daisy Barnett
Emlyn's Moon
Nain Griffiths
Dark River
Mrs. Blessington
Valmont
Madame de Volanges
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Mersyankh (voice)
The Snow Spider
Nain Griffiths
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Charal
The Doctor and the Devils
Annabella Rock
Dune
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Mrs Alicia Moore
Clash of the Titans
Cassiopeia
Carpathian Eagle
Mrs. Henska
Nijinsky
Lady Ripon
Heartbreak House
Hesione Hushabye
The Achurch Letters
Janet Achurch
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Platonov
Anna
Murphy's War
Hayden
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ursula Mossbank
Laughter in the Dark
Lady Pamela More
Thief
Woman
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Jo
Eh, Joe?
Voice
Young Cassidy
Ella
Becket
Gwendolen
Don Juan in Hell
Dona Ana
The Longest Day
WRNS Officer (uncredited)