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