Biography
Siân Phillips
Acting
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 Sch…
Career works
121
Movies
68
Series
53
Career average
7.0/10
Birth date
05/14/1933
Place of birth
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Filmography highlights
Movies
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · 7.5
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024 · 8.0
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · 6.0
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Siân Phillips at 90
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · 7.8
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022 · 8.0
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Dream Horse
2021 · 7.0
A Christmas Carol
2020 · 7.5
Summerland
2020 · 7.5
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019 · 6.0
Time & Again
2019 · 9.0
Be Happy!
2019 · 5.5
Nureyev
2018 · 7.3
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To Provide All People
2018 · 8.0
Series
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
2024 · 7.5
Doctor Who
2024 · 6.4
Remembers…
2022 · 7.0
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · 6.3
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021
A Year in the Beacons
2021
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · 7.6
Good Omens
2019 · 8.0
Playhouse Presents
2012 · 6.0
Lewis
2007 · 7.6
The Last Detective
2003 · 7.8
Attila
2001 · 6.3
The Magician's House
1999 · 6.0
The Scold's Bridle
1998
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Arthouse
1997