Siân Phillips
Acting
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.
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Age 89 (now 93)
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Age 88 (now 93)
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
as Madame Neilsen
Age 86 (now 93)
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
as Narrator
Age 78 (now 93)
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
Age 69 (now 93)
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
as Evil Baroness
Age 66 (now 93)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Red Queen
Age 65 (now 93)
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Age 41 (now 93)
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
as Narrator
Age 91 (now 93)
The Return of the Borrowers
as Mrs. Driver
Age 60 (now 93)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Laura Upward
Age 55 (now 93)
A Killing on the Exchange
as Isobel Makepeace
Age 53 (now 93)
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
as Duchess of Windsor
Age 53 (now 93)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
as Clementine Churchill
Age 48 (now 93)
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Sally Stirling
Age 35 (now 93)
BBC Play of the Month
as The Duchesse of Berwich
Age 32 (now 93)
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Also Known As
Sian Phillips, Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
IMDB
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