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Siân Phillips

Siân Phillips

Known For Acting
Birthday May 14, 1933 (92)
Birthplace Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Popularity 0.5 (history)
Updated Aug 10, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar

2024

as Voice

Dream Horse

Dream Horse

2021

as Maureen

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

2020

as Grandmother / narrator (voice)

Summerland

Summerland

2020

as Margaret Corey

Time & Again

Time & Again

2019

as Eleanor

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

2019

as Madame Neilsen

Nureyev

Nureyev

2018

as Narrator

To Provide All People

To Provide All People

2018

as Patient

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

2014

as Mrs. Pugh

A Picture of London

A Picture of London

2012

as Narrator

The Murder Room

The Murder Room

2004

as Marie Strickland

Stalin: Inside the Terror

Stalin: Inside the Terror

2003

as Narrator

Come and Go

Come and Go

2000

as Ru

Aristocrats

Aristocrats

1999

as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox

The Scold's Bridle

The Scold's Bridle

1998

as Mathilda Gillespie

House of America

House of America

1997

as Mam

The Mousehole Cat

The Mousehole Cat

1995

as Narrator

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

1993

as Mrs. Archer

The Chestnut Soldier

The Chestnut Soldier

1991

as Nain Griffiths

The Black Candle

The Black Candle

1991

as Daisy Barnett

Emlyn's Moon

Emlyn's Moon

1990

as Nain Griffiths

Dark River

Dark River

1990

as Mrs. Blessington

David Macaulay: Pyramid

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

as Mersyankh (voice)

Valmont

Valmont

1989

as Madame de Volanges

The Snow Spider

The Snow Spider

1988

as Nain Griffiths

The Doctor and the Devils

The Doctor and the Devils

1985

as Annabella Rock

Dune

Dune

1984

as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

How Many Miles to Babylon?

How Many Miles to Babylon?

1982

as Mrs Alicia Moore

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

1981

as Cassiopeia

Carpathian Eagle

Carpathian Eagle

1980

as Mrs. Henska

Nijinsky

Nijinsky

1980

as Lady Ripon

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

1972

as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard

Murphy's War

Murphy's War

1971

as Hayden

Platonov

Platonov

1971

as Anna

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1969

as Ursula Mossbank

Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark

1969

as Lady Pamela More

Eh, Joe?

Eh, Joe?

1966

as Voice

Young Cassidy

Young Cassidy

1965

as Ella

Becket

Becket

1964

as Gwendolen

Don Juan in Hell

Don Juan in Hell

1962

as Dona Ana

The Longest Day

The Longest Day

1962

as WRNS Officer (uncredited)

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Television Credits

I, Claudius

as Livia Drusilla

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Sep 20, 1976

The Magician's House

as Meg Lewis

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Oct 31, 1999

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

as Clementine Churchill

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Sep 06, 1981

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as Ann Smiley

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Sep 10, 1979

How Green Was My Valley

as Beth Morgan

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Dec 29, 1975

Warrior Queen

as Queen Boudicca

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Feb 20, 1978

Shoulder to Shoulder

as Emmeline Pankhurst

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Apr 03, 1974

Ivanhoe

as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jan 12, 1997

The Borrowers

as Mrs. Driver

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Nov 08, 1992

La Femme Nikita

as Adrian

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Jan 13, 1997

The Return of the Borrowers

as Mrs. Driver

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Nov 14, 1993

A Year in the Beacons

as Narrator

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jul 29, 2021

Vanity Fair

as Miss Matilda Crawley

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Sep 06, 1987

Crime and Punishment

as Katerina Ivanovna

Episodes: 3

First Aired: May 22, 1979

Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty

as Narrator

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Nov 23, 2024

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

as Duchess of Windsor

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Feb 08, 1987

Heidi

as Frau Sesemann

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jul 18, 1993

Attila

as Grandmother

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 30, 2001

I, Claudius

as Livia

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1976

Perfect Scoundrels

as Mother Aloysius

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 22, 1990

Good Omens

as Mr. Henderson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 31, 2019

Smiley's People

as Lady Ann Smiley

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1982

Hammer House of Horror

as Mrs. Henska

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 13, 1980

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Lady Lavery

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 24, 1951

Tales of the Unexpected

as Hermione

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 24, 1979

The Chelsea Detective

as Grandma Dix

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 07, 2022

McDonald & Dodds

as Agnes Gillian

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 01, 2020

The Last Detective

as Vera Dulciman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 07, 2003

The Scold's Bridle

as Mathilda

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 01, 1998

Doctor Who

as Enid Meadows

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 11, 2024

Silent Witness

as Beattie Elletson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 21, 1996

Midsomer Murders

as Lady Annabel Butler

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 23, 1997

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs. Laura Upward

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 08, 1989

Shadow of the Noose

as Lady Scott

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 28, 1989

Wonders of the Celtic Deep

as Self - Narrator

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Oct 12, 2021

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 01, 1956

Arthouse

as Self - Commentary

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 26, 1997

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