Siân Phillips

ActorWriter May 14 (age 92) Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales 1951–2025 (74 year career)

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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 E…

Known For

Film

The Longest Day

WRNS Officer (uncredited)

Film

Dune

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Film

The Age of Innocence

Mrs. Archer

Film

Clash of the Titans

Cassiopeia

Film

Summerland

Margaret Corey

Film

Valmont

Madame de Volanges

Film

I, Claudius

Livia Drusilla

Film

Becket

Gwendolen

Filmography

Acting (117)

Movies (68)

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

as Self

Apple Cider Vinegar

as Voice

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

as self

6.0

Siân Phillips at 90

2023

as Self

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

as Self

7.8

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

as Self

Dream Horse

as Maureen

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

2021

as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon

Summerland

2020

as Margaret Corey

7.5

A Christmas Carol

2020

as Grandmother / narrator (voice)

7.5

Be Happy!

2019

5.5

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

as Madame Neilsen

Time & Again

as Eleanor

To Provide All People

as Patient

Voyageuse

as Erica

Nureyev

as Narrator

Miss Dalí

as Anna Maria Dalí

Hochelaga, Land of Souls

2017

as Sarah Walker

5.1

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

Under Milk Wood

as Mrs. Pugh

Lovesong

as Maggie

A Picture of London

2012

as Narrator

The Mountain That Had To Be Painted

2011

as Narrator

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Self

The Murder Room

2004

as Marie Strickland

6.3

Stalin: Inside the Terror

2003

as Narrator

6.3

Still: Here/Now

2003

as Self

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

2002

as Self

7.0

Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime

as Evil Baroness

Come and Go

as Ru

Aristocrats

as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox

6.0

The Scold's Bridle

1998

as Mathilda Gillespie

6.1

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Red Queen

House of America

as Mam

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

as Calypso

The Mousehole Cat

as Narrator

The Age of Innocence

as Mrs. Archer

Animated Shakespeare | Macbeth

1992

as Traethydd/Narrator

The Black Candle

as Daisy Barnett

The Chestnut Soldier

as Nain Griffiths

Emlyn's Moon

as Nain Griffiths

Dark River

as Mrs. Blessington

Valmont

1989

as Madame de Volanges

6.7

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

as Mersyankh (voice)

The Snow Spider

1988

as Nain Griffiths

9.5

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

1985

as Charal

5.4

The Doctor and the Devils

1985

as Annabella Rock

6.2

Dune

1984

as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

6.2

How Many Miles to Babylon?

1982

as Mrs Alicia Moore

Clash of the Titans

as Cassiopeia

Nijinsky

as Lady Ripon

Carpathian Eagle

as Mrs. Henska

The Achurch Letters

as Janet Achurch

Heartbreak House

1977

as Hesione Hushabye

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

8.0

Under Milk Wood

1972

as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard

5.9

Platonov

1971

as Anna

Murphy's War

as Hayden

Laughter in the Dark

as Lady Pamela More

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Ursula Mossbank

It’s Dearer After Midnight

1968

as Jo

Thief

1968

as Woman

Eh, Joe?

1966

as Voice

Young Cassidy

as Ella

Becket

as Gwendolen

The Longest Day

as WRNS Officer (uncredited)

7.6

Don Juan in Hell

1962

as Dona Ana

Frank and Percy

Television (49)

Doctor Who

2024

as Enid Meadows

6.4

Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty

2024

as Narrator

8.0

The Chelsea Detective

2022

as Grandma Dix

6.3

Remembers…

2022

as Self

A Year in the Beacons

2021

as Narrator

Wonders of the Celtic Deep

2021

as Self - Narrator

McDonald & Dodds

as Agnes Gillian

Good Omens

as Mr. Henderson

Playhouse Presents

as May

The Last Detective

as Vera Dulciman

Attila

as Grandmother

The Magician's House

as Meg Lewis

The Magician's House

as Meg Lewis / Lutra the Otter (voice)

5.5

The Scold's Bridle

1998

as Mathilda

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Lady Annabel Butler

La Femme Nikita

as Adrian

Ivanhoe

as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

6.9

Arthouse

1997

as Self - Commentary

Silent Witness

1996

as Beattie Elletson

7.5

The Sherman Plays

1993

as Self - Introduction

Heidi

1993

as Frau Sesemann

7.1

The Return of the Borrowers

as Mrs. Driver

The Borrowers

as Mrs. Driver

Perfect Scoundrels

as Mother Aloysius

Red Empire

as Narrator (voice)

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Mrs. Laura Upward

8.2

Shadow of the Noose

1989

as Lady Scott

Vanity Fair

1987

as Matilda Crawley

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

1987

as Duchess of Windsor

3.8

A Killing on the Exchange

1987

as Isobel Makepeace

5.0

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

1981

as Clementine Churchill

5.0

Hammer House of Horror

1980

as Mrs. Henska

7.0

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Hermione

6.7

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1979

as Ann Smiley

7.6

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as Ann Smiley

Crime and Punishment

as Katerina Ivánovna

Warrior Queen

as Queen Boudicca

I, Claudius

as Livia Drusilla

I, Claudius

as Livia

How Green Was My Valley

as Beth Morgan

Playhouse

as Janet Achurch

Shoulder to Shoulder

as Emmeline Pankhurst

5.0

ITV Playhouse

1967

as May Bartram

6.5

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Anna Voinitseva

5.0

Drama 61-67

1961

as Carole Blair

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Armchair Theatre

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Lady Lavery

8.6

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

2021

Writer