Siân Phillips

About

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...

Known for

Midsomer MurdersSeries • 1997Agatha Christie's PoirotSeries • 1989Silent WitnessSeries • 1996BBC Play of the MonthSeries • 1965ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967Tales of the UnexpectedSeries • 1979La Femme NikitaSeries • 1997Doctor WhoSeries • 2024PlayhouseSeries • 1974Good OmensSeries • 2019LewisSeries • 2007ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries • 1969The Chelsea DetectiveSeries • 2022Playhouse PresentsSeries • 2012DuneMovie • 1984McDonald & DoddsSeries • 2020I, ClaudiusSeries • 1976The Longest DayMovie • 1962EspionageSeries • 1963Hammer House of HorrorSeries • 1980Tinker Tailor Soldier SpySeries • 1979Clash of the TitansMovie • 1981The Age of InnocenceMovie • 1993AttilaSeries • 2001