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