Siân Phillips
Born May 14, 1933 (Age: 92)
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Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
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.
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.
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Filmography
Dream Horse
2021
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as Maureen
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Age: 88
Summerland
2020
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as Margaret Corey
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Age: 87
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
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as Narrator
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Age: 78
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
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as Evil Baroness
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Age: 66
No Image
Come and Go
2000
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as Ru
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Age: 66
The Age of Innocence
1993
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as Mrs. Archer
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Age: 60
Animated Shakespeare | Macbeth
1992
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as Traethydd/Narrator
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Age: 59
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
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as Nain Griffiths
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Age: 58
Emlyn's Moon
1990
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as Nain Griffiths
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Age: 57
Valmont
1989
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as Madame de Volanges
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Age: 56
Dune
1984
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as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
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Age: 51
Clash of the Titans
1981
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as Cassiopeia
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Age: 48
The Achurch Letters
1977
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as Janet Achurch
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Age: 43
Laughter in the Dark
1969
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as Lady Pamela More
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Age: 35
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
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as Jo
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Age: 34
Becket
1964
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as Gwendolen
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Age: 30
No Image
Don Juan in Hell
1962
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as Dona Ana
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Age: 29
The Longest Day
1962
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as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
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Age: 29