Siân Phillips
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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
Credits
Dune (1984)
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Clash of the Titans (1981)
as Cassiopeia
The Longest Day (1962)
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
as Mrs. Archer
Dream Horse (2021)
as Maureen
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
as Charal
Valmont (1989)
as Madame de Volanges
Under Milk Wood (2014)
as Mrs. Pugh
Summerland (2020)
as Margaret Corey
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
as Self
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
as Annabella Rock
Becket (1964)
as Gwendolen
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
Murphy's War (1971)
as Hayden
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
as Ursula Mossbank
Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025)
as Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (2022)
as Self
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
as Red Queen
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
as Sarah Walker
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)
Actor
To Provide All People (2018)
as Patient
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995)
as Calypso
Dark River (1990)
as Mrs. Blessington
The Scold's Bridle (1998)
as Mathilda Gillespie
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood (2021)
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
as Self
I, Claudius: A Television Epic (2002)
as Self
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime (2000)
as Evil Baroness
Young Cassidy (1965)
as Ella
Be Happy! (2019)
as Maria
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
as Mrs Alicia Moore
Frank and Percy (2026)
Actor
Alec Guinness: A Class Act (2024)
as self
Time & Again (2019)
as Eleanor
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2019)
as Madame Neilsen
Lovesong (2012)
as Maggie
A Christmas Carol (2020)
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
David Macaulay: Pyramid (1989)
as Mersyankh (voice)
Thief (1968)
as Woman
Laughter in the Dark (1969)
as Lady Pamela More
House of America (1997)
as Mam
It’s Dearer After Midnight (1968)
as Jo
Under Milk Wood (1972)
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Nijinsky (1980)
as Lady Ripon
The Black Candle (1991)
as Daisy Barnett
Don Juan in Hell (1962)
as Dona Ana
The Murder Room (2004)
as Marie Strickland
Still: Here/Now (2003)
as Self
Miss Dalí (2018)
as Anna Maria Dalí
Nureyev (2018)
as Narrator
Aristocrats (1999)
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Apple Cider Vinegar (2024)
as Voice
Siân Phillips at 90 (2023)
as Self
Stalin: Inside the Terror (2003)
as Narrator
Platonov (1971)
as Anna
Carpathian Eagle (1980)
as Mrs. Henska
Voyageuse (2018)
as Erica
The Achurch Letters (1977)
as Janet Achurch
A Picture of London (2012)
as Narrator
Emlyn's Moon (1990)
as Nain Griffiths
The Chestnut Soldier (1991)
as Nain Griffiths
Heartbreak House (1977)
as Hesione Hushabye
The Snow Spider (1988)
as Nain Griffiths
Come and Go (2000)
as Ru
The Mousehole Cat (1995)
as Narrator
Eh, Joe? (1966)
as Voice
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted (2011)
as Narrator