Siân Phillips
Born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales — May 14 1933
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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, graduat…
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Siân Phillips's Credits
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Midsomer Murders
Lady Annabel Butler
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Laura Upward
Silent Witness
Beattie Elletson
BBC Play of the Month
Anna Voinitseva
Playhouse
Janet Achurch
Tales of the Unexpected
Hermione
Doctor Who
Enid Meadows
Dune
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
La Femme Nikita
Adrian
Good Omens
Mr. Henderson
Drama 61-67
Carole Blair
Hammer House of Horror
Mrs. Henska
The Chelsea Detective
Grandma Dix
I, Claudius
Livia
Playhouse Presents
May
McDonald & Dodds
Agnes Gillian
Attila
Grandmother
Arthouse
Self - Commentary
Shadow of the Noose
Lady Scott
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Ann Smiley
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lady Lavery
The Last Detective
Vera Dulciman
The Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Archer
Ivanhoe
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
The Longest Day
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Clash of the Titans
Cassiopeia
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Clementine Churchill
How Green Was My Valley
Beth Morgan
The Magician's House
Meg Lewis
Perfect Scoundrels
Mother Aloysius
Becket
Gwendolen
The Return of the Borrowers
Mrs. Driver
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Charal
Heidi
Frau Sesemann
Crime and Punishment
Katerina Ivánovna
Valmont
Madame de Volanges
Vanity Fair
Matilda Crawley
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Duchess of Windsor
Dream Horse
Maureen
Summerland
Margaret Corey
Armchair Theatre
Shoulder to Shoulder
Emmeline Pankhurst
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
A Christmas Carol
Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ursula Mossbank
A Killing on the Exchange
Isobel Makepeace
Murphy's War
Hayden
Red Empire
Narrator (voice)
The Sherman Plays
Self - Introduction
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Pugh
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Nijinsky
Lady Ripon
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
The Doctor and the Devils
Annabella Rock
The Murder Room
Marie Strickland
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Red Queen
To Provide All People
Patient
Aristocrats
Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
Under Milk Wood
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Come and Go
Ru
Young Cassidy
Ella
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Sarah Walker
Frank and Percy
Carpathian Eagle
Mrs. Henska
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie
Platonov
Anna
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Calypso
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Laughter in the Dark
Lady Pamela More
A Year in the Beacons
Narrator
The Black Candle
Daisy Barnett
Still: Here/Now
Self
Be Happy!
Warrior Queen
Queen Boudicca
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Mrs Alicia Moore
Dark River
Mrs. Blessington
House of America
Mam
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
Lovesong
Maggie
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
Evil Baroness
Miss Dalí
Anna Maria Dalí
Eh, Joe?
Voice
The Achurch Letters
Janet Achurch
Voyageuse
Erica
Thief
Woman
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
Self - Narrator
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
Time & Again
Eleanor
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Madame Neilsen
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Mersyankh (voice)
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Jo
The Chestnut Soldier
Nain Griffiths
Heartbreak House
Hesione Hushabye
Nureyev
Narrator
Emlyn's Moon
Nain Griffiths
Siân Phillips at 90
Self
Apple Cider Vinegar
Voice
Stalin: Inside the Terror
Narrator
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
Narrator
Don Juan in Hell
Dona Ana
The Snow Spider
Nain Griffiths
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Narrator
A Picture of London
Narrator
The Mousehole Cat
Narrator
Animated Shakespeare | Macbeth
Traethydd/Narrator
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee