Personal Info
Sian Phillips
Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
Siân Phillips
Acting
Biography
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,…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Voice
Siân Phillips at 90
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
Dream Horse
as Maureen
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Summerland
as Margaret Corey
A Christmas Carol
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
TV Shows
Doctor Who
as Enid Meadows · 1 ep.
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
as Narrator · 3 ep.
The Chelsea Detective
as Grandma Dix · 1 ep.
Remembers…
as Self · 3 ep.
A Year in the Beacons
as Narrator · 4 ep.
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
as Self - Narrator · 4 ep.
McDonald & Dodds
as Agnes Gillian · 1 ep.
Good Omens
as Mr. Henderson · 1 ep.
Playhouse Presents
as May · 1 ep.
The Last Detective
as Vera Dulciman · 1 ep.