Actor
Siân Phillips
May 14, 1933 · Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
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.
Notable work
6.2Dune (1984)
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
8Good Omens (2019)
as Mr. Henderson
7The Age of Innocence (1993)
as Mrs. Archer
7.6The Longest Day (1962)
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
6.9Clash of the Titans (1981)
as Cassiopeia
8.2Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
as Mrs. Laura Upward
7.5Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Lady Annabel Butler
5.4Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
as Charal
6.4Doctor Who (2024)
as Enid Meadows
6.7Valmont (1989)
as Madame de Volanges
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