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