Siân Phillips
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
Midsomer Murders
Lady Annabel Butler
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Laura Upward
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Silent Witness
Beattie Elletson
Good Omens
Mr. Henderson
Doctor Who
Enid Meadows
Tales of the Unexpected
Hermione
La Femme Nikita
Adrian
BBC Play of the Month
Anna Voinitseva
BBC Play of the Month
The Duchesse of Berwich
BBC Play of the Month
Hesione Hushabye
Playhouse
Janet Achurch
Playhouse
Alicia Moore
The Chelsea Detective
Grandma Dix
Dune
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
McDonald & Dodds
Agnes Gillian
I, Claudius
Livia
I, Claudius
Livia Drusilla
Clash of the Titans
Cassiopeia
Hammer House of Horror
Mrs. Henska
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Young Cassidy
Ella
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ursula Mossbank
The Murder Room
Marie Strickland
The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Archer
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Ann Smiley
The Longest Day
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Valmont
Madame de Volanges
Platonov
Anna
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Becket
Gwendolen
Attila
Grandmother
Summerland
Margaret Corey
Laughter in the Dark
Lady Pamela More
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Red Queen
A Christmas Carol
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
The Last Detective
Vera Dulciman
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Charal
Voyageuse
Erica
Ivanhoe
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
Emlyn's Moon
Nain Griffiths
The Snow Spider
Nain Griffiths
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
The Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
The Chestnut Soldier
Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
Daisy Barnett
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lady Lavery
Smiley's People
Lady Ann Smiley
Aristocrats
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Heidi
Frau Sesemann
Arthouse
Self - Commentary
The Magician's House
Meg Lewis
The Magician's House
Meg Lewis / Lutra the Otter (voice)
Heartbreak House
Hesione Hushabye
Nijinsky
Lady Ripon
Eh, Joe?
Voice
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Duchess of Windsor
Murphy's War
Hayden
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Perfect Scoundrels
Mother Aloysius
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Clementine Churchill
Shoulder to Shoulder
Emmeline Pankhurst
Come and Go
Ru
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Calypso
Thief
Woman
How Green Was My Valley
Beth Morgan
The Achurch Letters
Janet Achurch
House of America
Mam
Shadow of the Noose
Lady Scott
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Pugh
Vanity Fair
Matilda Crawley
Dark River
Mrs. Blessington
Crime and Punishment
Katerina Ivanovna
The Return of the Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
Dream Horse
Maureen
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda
Miss Dalí
Anna Maria Dalí
Nureyev
Narrator
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Sarah Walker
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
Still: Here/Now
Self
The Doctor and the Devils
Annabella Rock
Warrior Queen
Queen Boudicca
The Sherman Plays
Self - Introduction
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Narrator
A Picture of London
Narrator
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
Self - Narrator
A Year in the Beacons
Narrator
Siân Phillips at 90
Self
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Jo
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Mersyankh (voice)
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Evil Baroness
To Provide All People
Patient
Lovesong
Maggie
Be Happy!
Apple Cider Vinegar
Voice
Carpathian Eagle
Mrs. Henska
Stalin: Inside the Terror
Narrator
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Mrs Alicia Moore
Time & Again
Eleanor
Don Juan in Hell
Dona Ana
Red Empire
Narrator (voice)
The Mousehole Cat
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Madame Neilsen
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Narrator