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
Doctor Who
Enid Meadows
Silent Witness
Beattie Elletson
BBC Play of the Month
Anna Voinitseva
BBC Play of the Month
The Duchesse of Berwich
BBC Play of the Month
Hesione Hushabye
Tales of the Unexpected
Hermione
McDonald & Dodds
Agnes Gillian
Good Omens
Mr. Henderson
Playhouse
Janet Achurch
Playhouse
Alicia Moore
La Femme Nikita
Adrian
Dune
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
The Chelsea Detective
Grandma Dix
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Red Queen
The Longest Day
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
I, Claudius
Livia
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Sarah Walker
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Clash of the Titans
Cassiopeia
Valmont
Madame de Volanges
Attila
Grandmother
The Murder Room
Marie Strickland
The Snow Spider
Nain Griffiths
Hammer House of Horror
Mrs. Henska
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Ann Smiley
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Mersyankh (voice)
Dark River
Mrs. Blessington
Eh, Joe?
Voice
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Pugh
Smiley's People
Lady Ann Smiley
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
To Provide All People
Patient
Becket
Gwendolen
Apple Cider Vinegar
Voice
Arthouse
Self - Commentary
The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Archer
Laughter in the Dark
Lady Pamela More
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ursula Mossbank
Drama 61-67
Carole Blair
Nijinsky
Lady Ripon
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
The Last Detective
Vera Dulciman
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Jo
Ivanhoe
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Heidi
Frau Sesemann
Young Cassidy
Ella
Thief
Woman
The Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Duchess of Windsor
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lady Lavery
The Achurch Letters
Janet Achurch
Dream Horse
Maureen
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Charal
Vanity Fair
Matilda Crawley
Stalin: Inside the Terror
Narrator
How Green Was My Valley
Beth Morgan
Shadow of the Noose
Lady Scott
Perfect Scoundrels
Mother Aloysius
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Clementine Churchill
Emlyn's Moon
Nain Griffiths
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
Heartbreak House
Hesione Hushabye
The Return of the Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
The Magician's House
Meg Lewis
The Magician's House
Meg Lewis / Lutra the Otter (voice)
Siân Phillips at 90
Self
Murphy's War
Hayden
Frank and Percy
A Picture of London
Narrator
The Sherman Plays
Self - Introduction
Platonov
Anna
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Narrator
Summerland
Margaret Corey
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Evil Baroness
Crime and Punishment
Katerina Ivanovna
Be Happy!
Voyageuse
Erica
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Red Empire
Narrator (voice)
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
Self - Narrator
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda
Shoulder to Shoulder
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Narrator
A Christmas Carol
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Warrior Queen
Queen Boudicca
The Doctor and the Devils
Annabella Rock
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
The Black Candle
Daisy Barnett
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie
Nureyev
Narrator
Animated Shakespeare | Macbeth
Traethydd/Narrator
House of America
Mam
Time & Again
Eleanor
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Mrs Alicia Moore
Aristocrats
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Don Juan in Hell
Dona Ana
Miss Dalí
Anna Maria Dalí
A Year in the Beacons
Narrator
Lovesong
Maggie
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
Still: Here/Now
Self
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Madame Neilsen
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Calypso
The Mousehole Cat
Narrator
Carpathian Eagle
Mrs. Henska
Come and Go
Ru
The Chestnut Soldier
Nain Griffiths