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Siân Phillips
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
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…
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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.
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2026
Frank and Percy
Movie
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2025
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Movie Self
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2024
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
TV show Narrator
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2024
Apple Cider Vinegar
Movie Voice
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2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie self
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2024
Doctor Who
TV show Enid Meadows
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2023
Siân Phillips at 90
Movie Self
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2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie Self
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2022
Remembers…
TV show Self
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2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Movie Self
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2022
The Chelsea Detective
TV show Grandma Dix
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2021
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
TV show Self - Narrator
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2021
A Year in the Beacons
TV show Narrator
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2021
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Movie Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
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2021
Dream Horse
Movie Maureen
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2020
A Christmas Carol
Movie Grandmother / narrator (voice)
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2020
Summerland
Movie Margaret Corey
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2020
McDonald & Dodds
TV show Agnes Gillian
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2019
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Movie Madame Neilsen
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2019
Time & Again
Movie Eleanor
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2019
Be Happy!
Movie Maria
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2019
Good Omens
TV show Mr. Henderson
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2018
Nureyev
Movie Narrator
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2018
To Provide All People
Movie Patient
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2018
Miss Dalí
Movie Anna Maria Dalí
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2018
Voyageuse
Movie Erica
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2017
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Movie Sarah Walker
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2014
Under Milk Wood
Movie Mrs. Pugh
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2012
A Picture of London
Movie Narrator
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2012
Playhouse Presents
TV show May
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2012
Lovesong
Movie Maggie
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2011
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Movie Narrator
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2007
Lewis
TV show Adele Goffe
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2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie Self
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2004
The Murder Room
Movie Marie Strickland
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2003
Still: Here/Now
Movie Self
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2003
The Last Detective
TV show Vera Dulciman
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2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Movie Self - Ru (archive footage)
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2003
Stalin: Inside the Terror
Movie Narrator
