Known for Acting
Birthday
May 14, 1933
Place of Birth
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
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.

Midsomer Murders

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Silent Witness

Doctor Who

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

Playhouse

Playhouse

Tales of the Unexpected

McDonald & Dodds

Good Omens

The Chelsea Detective

La Femme Nikita

I, Claudius
Drama 61-67

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Hammer House of Horror

Attila

Smiley's People