Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1933-05-14 (Age: 93)
Place of Birth
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Siân Phillips
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.
Filmography (67)
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024Siân Phillips at 90
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Dream Horse
2021
A Christmas Carol
2020
Summerland
2020
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
Time & Again
2019
Be Happy!
2019
