Siân Phillips

Also Known As: Sian Phillips, Jane Elizabeth Ailwên 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales

Birthday: May 14, 1933

Adult: No

Gender: Female

Popularity:

2.25%

Known For:

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Dune
Clash of the Titans
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
The Age of Innocence
The Snow Spider
Emlyn's Moon
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
The Chestnut Soldier
Murphy's War
Under Milk Wood
Becket
Valmont
The Murder Room
Eh, Joe?
Come and Go
A Picture of London
Young Cassidy
Nijinsky
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Red Empire
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
The Doctor and the Devils
Under Milk Wood
The Scold's Bridle
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Apple Cider Vinegar
Thief
Don Juan in Hell
Lovesong
The Black Candle
Siân Phillips at 90
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Stalin: Inside the Terror
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Dark River
House of America
Heartbreak House
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Voyageuse
The Mousehole Cat
Miss Dalí
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
To Provide All People
David Macaulay: Pyramid
A Christmas Carol
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Nureyev
Dream Horse
Aristocrats
Be Happy!
Summerland
The Longest Day
Time & Again
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Platonov
Carpathian Eagle
Still: Here/Now
Laughter in the Dark
The Achurch Letters