Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1933-05-14
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Phillips
- Farmyard Stories for under Fives
- Story of Baby Rabbit
- Private Faces and Public Places
- Working with Relational Trauma in Schools
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Film & TV
Acting · 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,…
Known for
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius — Self2025
- Apple Cider Vinegar — Voice2024
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act — self2024
- Doctor Who — Enid Meadows2024
- Emperor: Rise & Fall of a Dynasty — Narrator2024
- Siân Phillips at 90 — Self2023
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self2022
- Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends — Self2022
- The Chelsea Detective — Grandma Dix2022
- Remembers… — Self2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,171
- Total plays
- 2,879
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Stephen Sondheim
Siân Phillips, CBE is a Welsh actress who was born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips in Betws, Carmarthenshire, Wales, on May 14, 1933. She has made many films and television programmes, but is best remembered as the evil Livia in the BBC adaptation of Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius (BBC2, 1976) and for many apprarances on the original run of Call My Bluff. She also appeared as Ann, the unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness's character George Smiley <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Si%C3%A2n+Philli
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,233x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 15,973x
- Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD
· 2005 · cited 15,742x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
· 2006 · cited 14,442x
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Key dates
- Born
- 14 May 1933
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Family name
- Phillips
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- Spouse
- Peter O'Toole
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Languages spoken
- English language
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1933 births20th-century Welsh actresses21st-century Welsh actressesActresses awarded damehoodsAlumni of Cardiff UniversityAlumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic ArtBest Actress BAFTA Award (television) winnersBritish film actressesBritish television actressesDames Commander of the Order of the British EmpireLiving peoplePeople from Neath Port Talbot