Siân Phillips

Siân Phillips

Birthday: 1933-05-14

Place of birth: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales

Also known as: Sian Phillips, Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips

imdb_id: nm0680795

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, 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.

Played in movies:

The Mousehole Cat

Score: 10.0

The Snow Spider

Score: 9.5

Time & Again

Score: 9.0

Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime

Score: 8.0

Apple Cider Vinegar

Score: 8.0

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Score: 8.0

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Score: 8.0

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Score: 7.6

The Longest Day

Score: 7.6

Summerland

Score: 7.5

Nureyev

Score: 7.4

A Christmas Carol

Score: 7.4

Voyageuse

Score: 7.3

Becket

Score: 7.1

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

Score: 7.0

Dream Horse

Score: 7.0

The Scold's Bridle

Score: 7.0

The Chestnut Soldier

Score: 7.0

Emlyn's Moon

Score: 7.0

The Age of Innocence

Score: 7.0

Clash of the Titans

Score: 6.9

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Score: 6.7

Valmont

Score: 6.7

The Doctor and the Devils

Score: 6.4

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

Score: 6.3

Stalin: Inside the Terror

Score: 6.3

The Murder Room

Score: 6.3

Young Cassidy

Score: 6.2

Under Milk Wood

Score: 6.2

Dune

Score: 6.2

Under Milk Wood

Score: 6.1

Murphy's War

Score: 6.1

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

Score: 6.0

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

Score: 6.0

Aristocrats

Score: 6.0

To Provide All People

Score: 6.0

Miss Dalí

Score: 5.7

Be Happy!

Score: 5.5

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

Score: 5.4

Nijinsky

Score: 5.3

Hochelaga, Land of Souls

Score: 5.2

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Score: 5.1

House of America

Score: 5.0

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

Score: 5.0

The Black Candle

Score: 4.8

Laughter in the Dark

Score: 4.0

Carpathian Eagle

Score: 4.0

Come and Go

Score: 4.0

The Achurch Letters

Score: 0.0

Still: Here/Now

Score: 0.0

Platonov

Score: 0.0

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Score: 0.0

David Macaulay: Pyramid

Score: 0.0

Heartbreak House

Score: 0.0

Dark River

Score: 0.0

Siân Phillips at 90

Score: 0.0

Lovesong

Score: 0.0

Don Juan in Hell

Score: 0.0

Thief

Score: 0.0

It’s Dearer After Midnight

Score: 0.0

Red Empire

Score: 0.0

A Picture of London

Score: 0.0

Eh, Joe?

Score: 0.0

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

Score: 0.0

The Mountain That Had To Be Painted

Score: 0.0

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Score: 8.1

Good Omens

Score: 8.0

Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty

Score: 8.0

I, Claudius

Score: 7.8

I, Claudius

Score: 7.8

Smiley's People

Score: 7.7

Silent Witness

Score: 7.6

McDonald & Dodds

Score: 7.6

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Score: 7.5

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

The Last Detective

Score: 7.5

La Femme Nikita

Score: 7.4

Crime and Punishment

Score: 7.3

Heidi

Score: 7.1

Hammer House of Horror

Score: 7.1

Ivanhoe

Score: 6.9

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Doctor Who

Score: 6.5

The Return of the Borrowers

Score: 6.5

How Green Was My Valley

Score: 6.5

The Borrowers

Score: 6.4

Attila

Score: 6.3

The Chelsea Detective

Score: 6.3

Perfect Scoundrels

Score: 6.0

The Magician's House

Score: 5.5

The Magician's House

Score: 5.5

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Score: 5.0

Shoulder to Shoulder

Score: 5.0

Warrior Queen

Score: 5.0

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Score: 4.3

Shadow of the Noose

Score: 0.0

The Scold's Bridle

Score: 0.0

Vanity Fair

Score: 0.0

Arthouse

Score: 0.0

Wonders of the Celtic Deep

Score: 0.0

A Year in the Beacons

Score: 0.0