Siân Phillips
Acting
118 titles
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.
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
2024
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Doctor Who
2024
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Remembers…
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021
A Year in the Beacons
2021
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Dream Horse
2021
A Christmas Carol
2020
Summerland
2020
McDonald & Dodds
2020
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
Time & Again
2019
Be Happy!
2019
Good Omens
2019
Nureyev
2018
To Provide All People
2018
Miss Dalí
2018
Voyageuse
2018
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Under Milk Wood
2014
A Picture of London
2012
Playhouse Presents
2012
Lovesong
2012
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Murder Room
2004
Still: Here/Now
2003
The Last Detective
2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
Attila
2001
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
Come and Go
2000
The Magician's House
1999
Aristocrats
1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
The Scold's Bridle
1998
The Scold's Bridle
1998
Arthouse
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
La Femme Nikita
1997
Ivanhoe
1997
House of America
1997
Silent Witness
1996
The Mousehole Cat
1995
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
The Age of Innocence
1993
Heidi
1993
The Sherman Plays
1993
The Borrowers
1992
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
The Black Candle
1991
Emlyn's Moon
1990
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
Red Empire
1990
Dark River
1990
Valmont
1989
Shadow of the Noose
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
The Snow Spider
1988
Vanity Fair
1987
A Killing on the Exchange
1987
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
Dune
1984
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
Clash of the Titans
1981
Carpathian Eagle
1980
Hammer House of Horror
1980
Nijinsky
1980
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
Crime and Punishment
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Warrior Queen
1978
Heartbreak House
1977
The Achurch Letters
1977
I, Claudius
1976
How Green Was My Valley
1975
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974
Playhouse
1974
Under Milk Wood
1972
Platonov
1971
Murphy's War
1971
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
Laughter in the Dark
1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
The Sex Game
1968
Thief
1968
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
ITV Playhouse
1967
Half Hour Story
1967
Eh, Joe?
1966
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Young Cassidy
1965
Becket
1964
Espionage
1963
Don Juan in Hell
1962
The Longest Day
1962
Drama 61-67
1961
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Frank and Percy