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