
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.

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Time & Again

Hallmark Hall of Fame

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Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty

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The Last Detective

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A Christmas Carol

Summerland

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

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La Femme Nikita

Voyageuse

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Crime and Punishment

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Heidi

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Emlyn's Moon

The Chestnut Soldier

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I, Claudius: A Television Epic

Playhouse

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Tales of the Unexpected

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Cinderella: The ITV Pantomime

How Green Was My Valley

The Borrowers

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Young Cassidy

The Chelsea Detective

The Murder Room

Stalin: Inside the Terror

Attila

The Doctor and the Devils

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Murphy's War

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Under Milk Wood

Aristocrats

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

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Playhouse Presents

Under Milk Wood

Miss Dalí

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Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes

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House of America

Warrior Queen

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

BBC Play of the Month

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The Black Candle

Carpathian Eagle

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Laughter in the Dark

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

The Mountain That Had To Be Painted

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

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Dark River

Heartbreak House

David Macaulay: Pyramid

How Many Miles to Babylon?

The Achurch Letters

Animeiddio Shakespeare | Macbeth

A Year in the Beacons

Wonders of the Celtic Deep

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Vanity Fair

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