Siân Phillips
Age: 90 | From: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Person Details
Birthday: 1934-05-14 04:55:35
Aliases: Sian Phillips , Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 53
TV Involvements: 25
Most Famous Work
Biography
Siân Phillips (born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales) 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.
Most Famous Work
Midsomer Murders
(1997) Lady Annabel Butler
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(1989) Mrs. Laura Upward
Silent Witness
(1996) Beattie Elletson
La Femme Nikita
(1997) Adrian
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Nominee
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Hermione
Dune
(1984) Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Clash of the Titans
(1981) CassiopeiaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2021 | Self - Narrator | |
| Narrator | ||
| Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon | ||
| Maureen | ||
| 2020 | Grandmother / narrator (voice) | |
| Margaret Corey | ||
| Agnes Gillian | ||
| 2019 | Madame Neilsen | |
| Eleanor | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mr Henderson | ||
| 2018 | Narrator | |
| Patient | ||
| Anna Maria Dalí | ||
| Erica | ||
| 2017 | Sarah Walker | |
| 2016 | N/A | |
| 2014 | Mrs. Pugh | |
| 2011 | Narrator | |
| 2007 | Self | |
| 2004 | Marie Strickland | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| Vera Dulciman | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| 2001 | Grandmother | |
| 2000 | Evil Baroness | |
| Ru | ||
| 1999 | Meg Lewis | |
| Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox | ||
| 1998 | Red Queen | |
| Mathilda | ||
| Mathilda Gillespie | ||
| 1997 | Lady Annabel Butler | |
| Adrian | ||
| Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine | ||
| Mam | ||
| 1996 | Beattie Elletson | |
| 1995 | Narrator | |
| Calypso | ||
| 1993 | Mrs. Driver | |
| Mrs. Driver | ||
| Mrs. Archer | ||
| Frau Sesemann | ||
| 1991 | Nain Griffiths | |
| Daisy Barnett | ||
| 1990 | Nain Griffiths | |
| Mother Aloysius | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Mrs. Blessington | ||
| 1989 | Madame de Volanges | |
| Mrs. Laura Upward | ||
| Mersyankh (voice) | ||
| 1988 | Nain Griffiths | |
| 1987 | Miss Matilda Crawley | |
| Duchess of Windsor | ||
| 1985 | Charal | |
| Annabella Rock | ||
| 1984 | Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam | |
| 1982 | N/A | |
| Mrs Alicia Moore | ||
| 1981 | Cassiopeia | |
| 1980 | Mrs. Henska | |
| Mrs. Henska | ||
| Lady Ripon | ||
| 1979 | Ann Smiley | |
| Hermione | ||
| 1978 | Queen Boudicca | |
| 1977 | Hesione Hushabye | |
| 1976 | Livia | |
| Livia Drusilla | ||
| 1975 | Beth Morgan | |
| 1974 | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | ||
| 1972 | Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard | |
| 1971 | Anna | |
| Hayden | ||
| 1969 | Ursula Mossbank | |
| Lady Pamela More | ||
| 1968 | Woman | |
| 1966 | Voice | |
| 1965 | Ella | |
| 1964 | Gwendolen | |
| 1962 | WRNS Officer (uncredited) | |
| 1956 | Self - Nominee | |
| 1951 | Lady Lavery | |
| Narrator | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |