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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 w…
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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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Frank and Percy
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Voice
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
No Poster
Siân Phillips at 90
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Dream Horse
as Maureen
A Christmas Carol
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Summerland
as Margaret Corey
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
as Madame Neilsen
Time & Again
as Eleanor
Be Happy!
as Maria
Nureyev
as Narrator
No Poster
To Provide All People
as Patient
Miss Dalí
as Anna Maria Dalí
Voyageuse
as Erica
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
as Sarah Walker
No Poster
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Pugh
No Poster
A Picture of London
as Narrator
Lovesong
as Maggie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
as Narrator
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
The Murder Room
as Marie Strickland
No Poster
Still: Here/Now
as Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
Stalin: Inside the Terror
as Narrator
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
as Evil Baroness
No Poster
Come and Go
as Ru
Aristocrats
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
as Mathilda Gillespie
House of America
as Mam
The Mousehole Cat
as Narrator
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
as Calypso
The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Archer
The Chestnut Soldier
as Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
as Daisy Barnett
Emlyn's Moon
as Nain Griffiths
Dark River
as Mrs. Blessington
Valmont
as Madame de Volanges
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Mersyankh (voice)
The Snow Spider
as Nain Griffiths
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
as Charal
The Doctor and the Devils
as Annabella Rock
Dune
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
How Many Miles to Babylon?
as Mrs Alicia Moore
Clash of the Titans
as Cassiopeia
Carpathian Eagle
as Mrs. Henska
Nijinsky
as Lady Ripon
Heartbreak House
as Hesione Hushabye
The Achurch Letters
as Janet Achurch
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
No Poster
Platonov
as Anna
Murphy's War
as Hayden
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Ursula Mossbank
Laughter in the Dark
as Lady Pamela More
No Poster
Thief
as Woman
It’s Dearer After Midnight
as Jo
Eh, Joe?
as Voice
Young Cassidy
as Ella
Becket
as Gwendolen
No Poster
Don Juan in Hell
as Dona Ana
The Longest Day
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)