Acting credits
100
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Siân Phillips
Acting
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1.5
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Movies: 60Series: 40Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 12522
IMDb ID: nm0680795
Known for: Acting
Born: May 14, 1933
Age: 92
Place of birth: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2025
Years active: 75
Average TMDB rating: 6.83
Wikidata: Q237778
Also known as
Sian Phillips • Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
Other jobs
Writer (1)
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.
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Movie credits linked with Siân Phillips.
7.5
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
2025 Movie
8.0
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Voice
2024 Movie
6.0
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024 Movie
7.8
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022 Movie
8.0
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
2022 Movie
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
2021 Movie
7.0
Dream Horse
as Maureen
2021 Movie
7.5
A Christmas Carol
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
2020 Movie
7.5
Summerland
as Margaret Corey
2020 Movie
6.0
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
as Madame Neilsen
2019 Movie
9.0
Time & Again
as Eleanor
2019 Movie
5.5
Be Happy!
2019 Movie
7.3
Nureyev
as Narrator
2018 Movie
8.0
To Provide All People
as Patient
2018 Movie
5.7
Miss Dalí
as Anna Maria Dalí
2018 Movie
7.3
Voyageuse
as Erica
2018 Movie
5.1
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
as Sarah Walker
2017 Movie
6.0
Under Milk Wood
as Mrs. Pugh
2014 Movie
A Picture of London
as Narrator
2012 Movie
Lovesong
as Maggie
2012 Movie
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
as Narrator
2011 Movie
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007 Movie
6.3
The Murder Room
as Marie Strickland
2004 Movie
6.3
Stalin: Inside the Terror
as Narrator
2003 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Siân Phillips.
8.0
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
as Narrator • 3 eps
2024 Series
6.4
Doctor Who
as Enid Meadows • 1 eps
2024 Series
Remembers…
as Self • 3 eps
2022 Series
6.3
The Chelsea Detective
as Grandma Dix • 1 eps
2022 Series
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
as Self - Narrator • 4 eps
2021 Series
A Year in the Beacons
as Narrator • 4 eps
2021 Series
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
as Agnes Gillian • 1 eps
2020 Series
8.0
Good Omens
as Mr. Henderson • 1 eps
2019 Series
6.0
Playhouse Presents
as May • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.7
The Last Detective
as Vera Dulciman • 1 eps
2003 Series
6.3
Attila
as Grandmother • 2 eps
2001 Series
5.5
The Magician's House
as Meg Lewis • 8 eps
1999 Series
The Scold's Bridle
as Mathilda • 2 eps
1998 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Lady Annabel Butler • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.4
La Femme Nikita
as Adrian • 5 eps
1997 Series
6.9
Ivanhoe
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine • 6 eps
1997 Series
7.5
Silent Witness
as Beattie Elletson • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.1
Heidi
as Frau Sesemann • 2 eps
1993 Series
6.4
The Borrowers
as Mrs. Driver • 12 eps
1992 Series
6.0
Perfect Scoundrels
as Mother Aloysius • 1 eps
1990 Series
Shadow of the Noose
as Lady Scott • 1 eps
1989 Series
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Laura Upward • 1 eps
1989 Series
Vanity Fair
as Matilda Crawley • 4 eps
1987 Series
5.0
A Killing on the Exchange
as Isobel Makepeace • 5 eps
1987 Series