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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1933-05-14
Place of birth
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
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Dune
1984
6.18
Clash of the Titans
1981
6.90
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
5.42
The Age of Innocence
1993
6.99
The Snow Spider
1988
9.50
Emlyn's Moon
1990
7.00
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
7.00
Murphy's War
1971
6.12
Under Milk Wood
1972
6.20
Becket
1964
7.10
Valmont
1989
6.68
The Murder Room
2004
6.30
Eh, Joe?
1966
0.00
Come and Go
2000
4.00
A Picture of London
2012
0.00
Young Cassidy
1965
6.20
Nijinsky
1980
5.30
Red Empire
1990
0.00
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
8.00
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
6.40
Under Milk Wood
2014
6.10
The Scold's Bridle
1998
7.00
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
8.00
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
0.00
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
0.00
Thief
1968
0.00
Don Juan in Hell
1962
0.00
Lovesong
2012
0.00
The Black Candle
1991
4.80
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
0.00
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
6.33
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
6.30
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
5.00
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
5.10
Dark River
1990
0.00
House of America
1997
5.00
Heartbreak House
1977
0.00
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
5.19
Voyageuse
2018
7.33
The Mousehole Cat
1995
10.00
Miss Dalí
2018
5.70
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
6.72
To Provide All People
2018
6.00
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
0.00
A Christmas Carol
2020
7.40
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
0.00
Nureyev
2018
7.40
Dream Horse
2021
7.00
Aristocrats
1999
6.00
Be Happy!
2019
5.50
Summerland
2020
7.54
The Longest Day
1962
7.60
Time & Again
2019
9.00
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
7.00
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
8.00
Platonov
1971
0.00
Carpathian Eagle
1980
4.00
Still: Here/Now
2003
0.00
Laughter in the Dark
1969
4.00
The Achurch Letters
1977
0.00
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
6.00