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.
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Film 2007
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Film 1984
Narrator
Film 2011
Mrs. Archer
Film 1993
Nain Griffiths
Film 1988
Nain Griffiths
Film 1990
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Film 2021
Nain Griffiths
Film 1991
Hayden
Film 1971
Marie Strickland
Film 2004
Voice
Film 1966
Ru
Film 2000
Narrator
Film 2012
Ella
Film 1965
Self
Film 2022
Narrator (voice)
Film 1990
Mathilda Gillespie
Film 1998
Self
Film 2022
Jo
Film 1968
Voice
Film 2024
Woman
Film 1968
Dona Ana
Film 1962
Maggie
Film 2012
Self
Film 2023
Film 2016
Narrator
Film 2003
Calypso
Film 1995
Mrs. Blessington
Film 1990
Mam
Film 1997
Hesione Hushabye
Film 1977
Erica
Film 2018
Narrator
Film 1995
Anna Maria Dalí
Film 2018
Patient
Film 2018
Mersyankh (voice)
Film 1989
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Film 2020
Mrs Alicia Moore
Film 1982
Narrator
Film 2018
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Film 1999
Film 2019
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Film 1962
Eleanor
Film 2019
Madame Neilsen
Film 2019
Self
Film 2002
Evil Baroness
Film 2000
Anna
Film 1971
Mrs. Henska
Film 1980
Self
Film 2003
Lady Pamela More
Film 1969
Janet Achurch
Film 1977
Meg Lewis
Tv 1999
Adrian
Tv 1997
Beth Morgan
Tv 1975
Mother Aloysius
Tv 1990
Narrator
Tv 2021
Self - Narrator
Tv 2021
Mr. Henderson
Tv 2019
Tv 1982
Mrs. Henska
Tv 1980
Self - Nominee
Tv 1956
Self - Commentary
Tv 1997
Mrs. Driver
Tv 1993
Queen Boudicca
Tv 1978
Lady Lavery
Tv 1951
Hermione
Tv 1979
Grandma Dix
Tv 2022
Miss Matilda Crawley
Tv 1987
Ann Smiley
Tv 1979
Agnes Gillian
Tv 2020
Vera Dulciman
Tv 2003
Enid Meadows
Tv 2024
Beattie Elletson
Tv 1996
Lady Annabel Butler
Tv 1997
Mrs. Laura Upward
Tv 1989
Katerina Ivanovna
Tv 1979
Lady Scott
Tv 1989
Narrator
Tv 2024