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.
as Self
as Narrator(3 eps)
as Voice
as self
as Enid Meadows(1 ep)
as Self
as Self(3 eps)
as Grandma Dix(1 ep)
as Self - Narrator(4 eps)
as Narrator(4 eps)
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
as Maureen
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
as Margaret Corey
as Agnes Gillian(1 ep)
as Madame Neilsen
as Eleanor
as Maria
as Mr. Henderson(1 ep)
as Narrator
as Patient
as Anna Maria Dalí
as Erica
as Sarah Walker
as Mrs. Pugh
as Narrator
as May(1 ep)
as Maggie
as Narrator
as Adele Goffe(1 ep)
as Marie Strickland
as Self
as Vera Dulciman(1 ep)
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Grandmother(2 eps)
as Evil Baroness
as Ru
as Meg Lewis(12 eps)
as Red Queen
as Mathilda Gillespie
as Mathilda(2 eps)
as Self - Commentary(1 ep)
as Lady Annabel Butler(1 ep)
as Adrian(5 eps)
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine(6 eps)
as Mam
as Beattie Elletson(1 ep)
as Narrator
as Calypso
as Mrs. Driver(5 eps)
as Mrs. Archer
as Frau Sesemann(2 eps)
as Self - Introduction(2 eps)
as Mrs. Driver(12 eps)
as Nain Griffiths
as Clare Wedderburn(1 ep)
as Barbara Faber(1 ep)
as Olive Lloyd-Ransome(1 ep)
as Daisy Barnett
as Nain Griffiths
as Mother Aloysius(1 ep)
as Narrator (voice)(7 eps)
as Mrs. Blessington
as Madame de Volanges
as Lady Scott(1 ep)
as Mrs. Laura Upward(1 ep)
as Mersyankh (voice)
as Nain Griffiths
as Nain Griffiths(4 eps)
as Matilda Crawley(4 eps)
as Miss Drake(1 ep)
as Isobel Makepeace(5 eps)
as Duchess of Windsor(2 eps)
as Charal
as Annabella Rock
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
as Mrs Alicia Moore
as Clementine Churchill(8 eps)
as Cassiopeia
as Mrs. Henska
as Mrs. Henska(1 ep)
as Lady Ripon
as Ann Smiley(1 ep)
as Katerina Ivánovna(3 eps)
as Hermione(1 ep)
as Queen Boudicca(6 eps)
as Hesione Hushabye
as Janet Achurch
as Livia(7 eps)
as Beth Morgan(6 eps)
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
as Emmeline Pankhurst(6 eps)
as Janet Achurch(1 ep)
as Alicia Moore(1 ep)
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
as Anna
as Hayden
as Ursula Mossbank
as Martha Jones(1 ep)
as Lady Pamela More
as Sally Stirling(1 ep)
as Louisa(1 ep)
as Woman
as Jo(1 ep)
as May Bartram(1 ep)
as A Girl(1 ep)
as Voice
as Anna Voinitseva(1 ep)
as The Duchesse of Berwich(1 ep)
as Hesione Hushabye(1 ep)
as Ella
as Gwendolen
as Anna(1 ep)
as Dona Ana
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
as Carole Blair(1 ep)
as Self - Nominee(1 ep)
as Lady Lavery(1 ep)