Siân Phillips
Acting
127
Acting Credits
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
Filmography
Frank and Percy
2026
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
as Self
Apple Cider Vinegar
2024
as Voice
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
as self
Doctor Who
2024
as Enid Meadows
Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty
2024
as Narrator
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
as Self
The Chelsea Detective
2022
as Grandma Dix
Remembers…
2022
as Self
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
Dream Horse
2021
as Maureen
A Year in the Beacons
2021
as Narrator
Wonders of the Celtic Deep
2021
as Self - Narrator
A Christmas Carol
2020
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
Summerland
2020
as Margaret Corey
McDonald & Dodds
2020
as Agnes Gillian
Be Happy!
2019
as Maria
Time & Again
2019
as Eleanor
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019
as Madame Neilsen
Good Omens
2019
as Mr. Henderson
Voyageuse
2018
as Erica
Miss Dalí
2018
as Anna Maria Dalí
To Provide All People
2018
as Patient
Nureyev
2018
as Narrator
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
as Sarah Walker
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Under Milk Wood
2014
as Mrs. Pugh
A Picture of London
2012
as Narrator
Lovesong
2012
as Maggie
Playhouse Presents
2012
as May
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
2011
as Narrator
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Lewis
2007
as Adele Goffe
The Murder Room
2004
as Marie Strickland
Stalin: Inside the Terror
2003
as Narrator
Still: Here/Now
2003
as Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
as Self - Ru (archive footage)
The Last Detective
2003
as Vera Dulciman
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
Attila
2001
as Grandmother
Come and Go
2000
as Ru
Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime
2000
as Evil Baroness
Aristocrats
1999
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
The Magician's House
1999
as Meg Lewis
The Scold's Bridle
1998
as Mathilda Gillespie
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as Red Queen
The Scold's Bridle
1998
as Mathilda
House of America
1997
as Mam
La Femme Nikita
1997
as Adrian
Arthouse
1997
as Self - Commentary
Ivanhoe
1997
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Lady Annabel Butler
Silent Witness
1996
as Beattie Elletson
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
as Calypso
The Mousehole Cat
1995
as Narrator
The Age of Innocence
1993
as Mrs. Archer
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
as Mrs. Driver
Heidi
1993
as Frau Sesemann
The Sherman Plays
1993
as Self - Introduction
The Borrowers
1992
as Mrs. Driver
The Chestnut Soldier
1991
as Nain Griffiths
The Black Candle
1991
as Daisy Barnett
Tonight at 8.30
1991
as Clare Wedderburn
Tonight at 8.30
1991
as Barbara Faber
Tonight at 8.30
1991
as Olive Lloyd-Ransome
Emlyn's Moon
1990
as Nain Griffiths
Dark River
1990
as Mrs. Blessington
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Mother Aloysius
Red Empire
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Valmont
1989
as Madame de Volanges
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Mersyankh (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Mrs. Laura Upward
Shadow of the Noose
1989
as Lady Scott
The Snow Spider
1988
as Nain Griffiths
The Snow Spider
1988
as Nain Griffiths
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
1987
as Duchess of Windsor
Vanity Fair
1987
as Matilda Crawley
A Killing on the Exchange
1987
as Isobel Makepeace
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1985
as Charal
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
as Annabella Rock
Dune
1984
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
as Mrs Alicia Moore
Clash of the Titans
1981
as Cassiopeia
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
as Clementine Churchill
Nijinsky
1980
as Lady Ripon
Carpathian Eagle
1980
as Mrs. Henska
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Mrs. Henska
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Hermione
Crime and Punishment
1979
as Katerina Ivánovna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
as Ann Smiley
Warrior Queen
1978
as Queen Boudicca
Heartbreak House
1977
as Hesione Hushabye
The Achurch Letters
1977
as Janet Achurch
I, Claudius
1976
as Livia
How Green Was My Valley
1975
as Beth Morgan
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974
as Emmeline Pankhurst
Playhouse
1974
as Janet Achurch
Playhouse
1974
as Alicia Moore
Under Milk Wood
1972
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
Murphy's War
1971
as Hayden
Platonov
1971
as Anna
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969
as Ursula Mossbank
Laughter in the Dark
1969
as Lady Pamela More
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Sally Stirling
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
as Martha Jones
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968
as Jo
Thief
1968
as Woman
The Sex Game
1968
as Louisa
ITV Playhouse
1967
as May Bartram
Half Hour Story
1967
as A Girl
City '68
1967
as Jo
Eh, Joe?
1966
as Voice
Young Cassidy
1965
as Ella
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Anna Voinitseva
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as The Duchesse of Berwich
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Hesione Hushabye
Becket
1964
as Gwendolen
Espionage
1963
as Anna
Don Juan in Hell
1962
as Dona Ana
The Longest Day
1962
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Drama 61-67
1961
as Carole Blair
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Lady Lavery