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Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips, (born 14 May 1933), also known as Siân Phillips (born 14 May 1934), is a Welsh actress.

Early life

Phillips was born in Gwaun-Gurwen, Wales, on May 14, 1933. Sally (née Thomas), a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker who became a policeman, were married. She is a Welsh-speaker who writes in the first volume of her autobiography Private Faces (1999), she claims she spoke only Welsh for a large portion of her childhood and learned English by listening to the radio.

Phillips was a student at Pontardawe Grammar School and was originally identified as Jane, but her Welsh teacher, Siân, the Welsh version of Jane, was misidentified there. At University College Cardiff, she later took up English and philosophy.

Phillips graduated from the University of Wales in 1955. She received a scholarship in September 1955, the same year as Diana Rigg and Glenda Jackson. She received the Bancroft Gold Medal for Hedda Gabler and was offered jobs in Hollywood after she left the RADA. She was offered three film internships to work in the United States for a lengthy period of time, but she declined to perform on stage as a student.

Personal life

Don Roy, a University of Wales post-graduate student, was Phillips' first husband. They were married in 1956 and divorced in 1959.

Phillips married Peter O'Toole in December 1959, when the couple was still pregnant with their first child. They had two children: Kate, 1960, and Patricia, 1963. Patricia is a theatre specialist, and Kate is an actress. The couple divorced in 1979, and Phillips wrote about this tumultuous period of her life in Public Places, the second volume of her autobiography.

Robin Sachs, who was 17 years old at the time, was her third husband. They began dating in 1975. They were married on Christmas Eve 1979, just after she had divorced O'Toole. In 1991, Williams and Sachs divorced.

Rosina Davies, the Welsh evangelist, was her great aunt.

She is a patron of the Bird College of Dance, Music & Theatre Performance, based in Sidcup, Greater London.

Both her two autobiography books, Private Faces and Public Places, were published in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

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Career

Phillips began acting with the Home Service of BBC Radio in Wales at the age of 11. She received her first speech-and-drama award at Llandyb's in 1944, where she and a school friend played two elderly men in a dramatic duologue.

She made her first British television appearance at 17 and received a Welsh acting award at 18. In 1953, when still a student at University College, Cardiff worked as a newsreader and announcer for the BBC in Wales and Wales in Welsh-language Welsh Arts Council productions.

Phillips appeared in BBC Repertory Company and the National Theatre Company, as well as visiting Wales, where he appeared in Welsh and English plays for the Welsh Arts Council from 1953 to 1955. She was Masha in Three Sisters, who appeared in the Nottingham Playhouse in 1958. In 1959, she appeared in The King's Daughter, by Saunders Lewis, and as Katherine in Taming of the Shrew for the Oxford Playhouse in 1960. Princess Siwan appeared in Siwan: The King's Daughter, alongside Peter O'Toole and Emyr Humphrys as producer, again. On March 1, 1960, it was shown on BBC One (Wales only). She was compere of the Land of Song (Gwlad y Gân) monthly programme at TWW (Television Wales and the West) channel ten from October 1958 to March 1959. Baritone Ivor Emmanuel is a form of the French National Guard Force.

When she appeared in Hermann Sudermann's Magda for RADA, she made her first appearance on the London stage in 1957. Magda, a true London diva, was her first real success. Despite being only a student at the time, the actress did well and enriched her career; although she was only a student at the time, she was the first since Sarah Bernhardt to play the part.

Phillips appeared in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in 1957. Fredrik Ohlsson as Tesman at the opening of The Duke of York's Theatre on December 3, 1957. They appeared at Det Nye Teatret in Oslo and At The Vanbrugh, RADA. This is her London debut, according to several publications, but she did Magda before Hedda Gabler did Magda. Margaret Muir appeared in John Hall's The Holiday at Oxford New Theatre in September 1958.

Phillips appeared in a Coventry production of Shaw's Saint Joan by Bryan Bailey in May 1958, just six weeks before. "Sian Phillips' portrayal of Joan defies the rule of averages, according to an observer, since I first saw Siobhan McKenna in the 1955 Arts Theatre production, I thought it was impossible to compare within half a century. The Welsh girl is a natural performer, as she is Joan of Ireland.' In short, perfection is in the form of perfection.

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Her long career has included many films and television shows, but she is perhaps best known for her role in Robert Graves' book I, Claudius (BBC2, 1976), for which she received the 1977 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and numerous appearances on Call My Bluff's original run. She appeared in Becket (1964) alongside her then-husband Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton; in the television series Why Meddle (1981): A tet (1985) starring Robert Harty; as Clementine Mossbank; and as King Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans (1981).

Reverend Mother Gaius Mohiam was also popular in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Charal from Ewoks (1985). Adrian, the renegade founder of the influential Section One anti-terrorist group, appeared in seasons 2 and 4 (1998 and 2000) of the Canadian television series La Femme Nikita. She appeared in Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in 2001. Consuela Dunphy, a faith healer in Ballykissangel, is on the show ('One Born Every Minute' or 'Getting Better All the Time)). Richard Bracewell's most recent film, The Gigolos (2006), in which she played Lady James, was her most prominent character. She appeared in New Tricks' episode "Coming Out Ball" in 2010, and in 2011 she appeared in the episode "Wild Justice" in Lewis' fifth season. In 2017, she appeared in the TV series Strike as Lady Yvette Bristow. McDonald & Dodds was a television series that premiered in 2022.

Marlene (in which she played Marlene Dietrich), Pal Joey, Gigi, and A Little Night Music are among Phillips' West End credits. She has appeared on television in Marlene as well.

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She sang-word support to a track on Rufus Wainwright's 2007 album Release the Stars and appeared live with him at the Old Vic Theatre in London on May 31. Phillips appeared in London's West End production of Calendar Girls in 2009. In Juliet and her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic from 10 March to April 2010, Phillips played Juliet opposite Michael Byrne's Romeo in Juliet and her Romeo.

She appeared in a new cabaret performance, Crossing Borders, at Wilton's Music Hall in London in January 2011. According to one review, "Her cabaret shows are always of the more traditional type." She's had a long and successful career, and her show followed its growth, with backstage anecdotes about the people she met and worked with along the way. It may not be edgy, but it's a truly delightful evening in a truly lovely venue.

In the Arthur Miller stage version of Playing for Time at Sheffield Theatres, she portrayed lead character Fania Fénelon.

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