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.
67 movies · 53 shows
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025·7.5
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024·8.0
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024·6.0
Siân Phillips at 90
2023·0.0
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022·7.8
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022·8.0
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021·0.0
Dream Horse
2021·7.0
A Christmas Carol
2020·7.5
Summerland
2020·7.5
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019·6.0
Time & Again
2019·9.0
Be Happy!
2019·5.5
Nureyev
2018·7.3
To Provide All People
2018·8.0
Miss Dalí
2018·5.7
Voyageuse
2018·7.3
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017·4.8
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016·6.3
Under Milk Wood
2014·6.0
A Picture of London
2012·0.0
Lovesong
2012·0.0
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011·0.0
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007·0.0
The Murder Room
2004·6.5
Still: Here/Now
2003·9.0
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003·10.0
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003·7.0
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002·7.0
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000·6.7
Come and Go
2000·6.0
Aristocrats
1999·6.0
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998·5.2
The Scold's Bridle
1998·6.4
House of America
1997·5.7
The Mousehole Cat
1995·10.0
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995·5.0
The Age of Innocence
1993·7.0
The Chestnut Soldier
1991·7.0
The Black Candle
1991·5.0
Emlyn's Moon
1990·8.0
Dark River
1990·10.0
Valmont
1989·6.7
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989·0.0
The Snow Spider
1988·9.5
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985·5.4
The Doctor and the Devils
1985·6.2
Dune
1984·6.2
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982·0.0
Clash of the Titans
1981·6.9
Carpathian Eagle
1980·5.2
Nijinsky
1980·4.9
Heartbreak House
1977·0.0
The Achurch Letters
1977·0.0
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974·8.0
Under Milk Wood
1972·6.1
Platonov
1971·8.0
Murphy's War
1971·6.2
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969·6.8
Laughter in the Dark
1969·4.3
Thief
1968·10.0
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968·0.0
Eh, Joe?
1966·10.0
Young Cassidy
1965·6.4
Becket
1964·7.2
Don Juan in Hell
1962·0.0
The Longest Day
1962·7.6