Siân Phillips
Acting
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.
Born: May 14, 1933
Place of Birth: Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales
Known For
The Mousehole Cat
Told through the eyes of Mowzer, a cat, this tale -- based on a Cornish legend -- follows brave Tom Bawcock as he makes his way towards the treacherous sea conditions to bring food back to the village. Luckily, his faithful cat sings a lullaby to the Great Storm-Cat of the sea, who was responsible for unleashing the terrible weather. Soothed by Mowzer, the Great Storm-Cat allows Tom to catch enough fish to feed every mouth in the village.
The Snow Spider
On his ninth birthday, young Gwyn (Osian Roberts), who lives on a remote hill farm in Wales, receives five strange gifts from his grandmother (Siân Phillips): a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle, a metal brooch and a small broken horse. Gwyn offers the brooch to the wind and receives back a tiny silvery spider - Arianwen, the snow spider - confirming that, as his grandmother had already guessed, he has inherited magical powers from his Celtic ancestor Gwydyon, a powerful magician whose exploits are described in the fourth book ("Math Son of Mathonwy") of the Mabinogion. With the help of the snow spider, Gwyn embarks on adventures involving other worlds of snow and silver, as he attempts to solve the five-year-old mystery of his sister Beth's disappearance in a snow storm.
Time & Again
Eleanor and Isabelle meet again, sixty years after their relationship break up...
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Good Omens
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces in order to prevent Armageddon. They attempt to raise the Antichrist in a balanced and human way, but are they focusing their efforts in the right direction?
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged production. He had specially devised it to celebrate Sondheim’s extraordinary talents as a composer and lyricist. Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Ball, Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Petula Clark, Anna-Jane Casey, Rosalie Craig, Janie Dee, Judi Dench, Daniel Evans, Maria Friedman, Haydn Gwynne, Bonnie Langford, Damian Lewis and Julia McKenzie.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Stones are at once the most foundational and the most overlooked parts of our lifeworld. When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone . A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions, Apple Cider Vinegar takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian quarry workers, passionate Britisch Geologist and People living on the lava fields of Fogo.
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
The son of a Welsh miner, Richard Burton became a Hollywood star and is considered one of the greatest British actors ever. He lived a big life in a short time. This is his epic story, from the village of Pontrhydyfen to global icon, and from the teacher in Port Talbot spotting his talents and transforming his life to being offered $7 million for seven movies and a scandalous love affair with Elizabeth Taylor that captivated the world.
Filmography
as Self
as Narrator
as Voice
as self
as Enid Meadows
as Grandma Dix
as Self - Narrator
as Narrator
as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon
as Maureen
as Grandmother / narrator (voice)
as Margaret Corey
as Agnes Gillian
as Madame Neilsen
as Eleanor
as Mr. Henderson
as Narrator
as Patient
as Anna Maria Dalí
as Erica
as Sarah Walker
as Mrs. Pugh
as Narrator
as Maggie
as Narrator
as Marie Strickland
as Vera Dulciman
as Narrator
as Grandmother
as Evil Baroness
as Meg Lewis
as Meg Lewis / Lutra the Otter (voice)
as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox
as Red Queen
as Mathilda
as Lady Annabel Butler
as Adrian
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
as Mam
as Beattie Elletson
as Narrator
as Calypso
as Mrs. Archer
as Frau Sesemann
as Traethydd/Narrator
as Mrs. Driver
as Nain Griffiths
as Daisy Barnett
as Nain Griffiths
as Mrs. Blessington
as Madame de Volanges
as Lady Scott
as Mrs. Laura Upward
as Mersyankh (voice)
as Nain Griffiths
as Matilda Crawley
as Duchess of Windsor
as Charal
as Annabella Rock
as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
as Lady Ann Smiley
as Mrs Alicia Moore
as Clementine Churchill
as Cassiopeia
as Mrs. Henska
as Mrs. Henska
as Lady Ripon
as Ann Smiley
as Katerina Ivánovna
as Hermione
as Queen Boudicca
as Hesione Hushabye
as Janet Achurch
as Livia
as Beth Morgan
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
as Emmeline Pankhurst
as Janet Achurch
as Alicia Moore
as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard
as Hayden
as Ursula Mossbank
as Lady Pamela More
as Voice
as Anna Voinitseva
as The Duchesse of Berwich
as Hesione Hushabye
as Ella
as Gwendolen
as WRNS Officer (uncredited)
as Self - Nominee
as Lady Lavery