Siân Phillips
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1933-05-14 (91 years old)
Place of Birth Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Also Known As Sian Phillips, Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
Siân Phillips
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.
Known For
Actor
as Voice
as Enid Meadows
as Self
as Self
as Grandma Dix
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
as Maureen
as Self - Narrator
as Narrator
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
as Margaret Corey
as Agnes Gillian
as Madame Neilsen
as Eleanor
as Mr. Henderson
as Narrator
as Patient
as Anna Maria Dalí
as Erica
as Sarah Walker
as Mrs. Pugh
as Narrator
as Maggie
as Narrator
as Marie Strickland
as Self
as Narrator
as Vera Dulciman
as Self
as Grandmother
as Evil Baroness
as Ru
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
as Meg Lewis
as Red Queen
as Mathilda Gillespie
as Mathilda
as Mam
as Self - Commentary
as Lady Annabel Butler
as Adrian
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
as Beattie Elletson
as Narrator
as Calypso
as Mrs. Driver
as Mrs. Archer
as Mrs. Driver
as Frau Sesemann
as Nain Griffiths
as Daisy Barnett
as Nain Griffiths
as Narrator (voice)
as Mrs. Blessington
as Mother Aloysius
as Madame de Volanges
as Mersyankh (voice)
as Mrs. Laura Upward
as Nain Griffiths
as Miss Matilda Crawley
as Duchess of Windsor
as Charal
as Annabella Rock
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
as Mrs Alicia Moore
as Cassiopeia
as Mrs. Henska
as Lady Ripon
as Mrs. Henska
as Ann Smiley
as Katerina Ivanovna
as Hermione
as Queen Boudicca
as Hesione Hushabye
as Janet Achurch
as Livia
as Livia Drusilla
as Beth Morgan
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
as Emmeline Pankhurst
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
as Anna
as Hayden
as Ursula Mossbank
as Lady Pamela More
as Woman
as Voice
as Ella
as Gwendolen
as Dona Ana
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
as Self - Nominee
as Lady Lavery
Writer
as Writer