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Siân Phillips is a Actor British born on 14 may 1933

Siân Phillips

Siân Phillips
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Birth name Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 may 1933 (90 years)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Siân Phillips, CBE, (/ˈʃɑːn/; born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips; 14 May 1933) is a Welsh actress.

Biography

Phillips' first husband was Don Roy, a post-graduate student at the University of Wales. They were married in 1956 and divorced in 1959. In 2001 he was made an emeritus professor of drama in an English university.

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

Her third husband was actor Robin Sachs, who was 17 years her junior. Their relationship began in 1975. They were married on Christmas Eve 1979, very shortly after the divorce with O'Toole. They divorced in 1991.

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

Her two-volume autobiography - Private Faces and Public Places - were published in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

Usually with

Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
(4 films)
David Lynch
David Lynch
(1 films)
T.P. McKenna
T.P. McKenna
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Siân Phillips (26 films)

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Actress

Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Directed by François Girard
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Vincent Pérez, Siân Phillips, David La Haye, Gilles Renaud, Linus Roache, Caroline Dhavernas
Roles Sarah Walker
Rating63% 3.1883953.1883953.1883953.1883953.188395
Pendant que se déroule à Montréal une partie de football sous la pluie, une section du terrain du stade Percival-Molson s'effondre. Baptiste Asigny, un étudiant au doctorat d'archéologie d'origine mohawk, découvre là les traces de ceux qui ont habité l'île de Montréal alors qu'elle était une bourgade nommée Hochelaga.
Mrs McGinty est morte, 1h40
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Zoë Wanamaker, David Yelland, Sarah Smart, Raquel Cassidy, Richard Dillane
Roles Mrs Upward
Rating76% 3.845933.845933.845933.845933.84593
James Bentley est jugé coupable du meurtre de sa logeuse Mrs McGinty et est condamné à mort. Mais le Superintendant Spence a des doutes sur sa culpabilité et par précaution il appelle Poirot. Celui-ci, aidé de son amie écrivain Ariadne Oliver, part approfondir l'enquête, ce qui ne semble pas plaire à tout le monde…
The Gigolos, 1h35
Directed by Richard Bracewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Sacha Alexander, Susannah York, Anna Massey, Siân Phillips
Rating54% 2.7128852.7128852.7128852.7128852.712885
The film begins at night with Sacha on a balcony on the south side of the River Thames in London, overlooking Parliament. Sacha smokes while his valet Trevor helps him dress. Sacha leaves the apartment block in his silver Mercedes SL480 (a reference to the Mercedes 450 SL Convertible Richard Gere drives in American Gigolo), crossing Westminster Bridge to a date.
Attila (miniseries), 2h57
Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Gerard Butler, Powers Boothe, Simmone Mackinnon, Reg Rogers, Isla Fisher, Alice Krige
Roles Grandmother
Rating69% 3.4569353.4569353.4569353.4569353.456935
The miniseries tells the story of one of the most ferocious warriors in the world, Attila the Hun, who violently assumes Hun leadership and unites the warring clans under his banner. It also tells the story of Flavius Aetius, one of the so-called "Last of the Romans" who worked vigorously for years to keep the dying Western Roman Empire intact in the face of constant barbarian onslaught.
Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1h23
Directed by John Henderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kate Beckinsale, Geoffrey Palmer, Ian Holm, Steve Coogan, Penelope Wilton, Siân Phillips
Roles Red Queen
Rating53% 2.651332.651332.651332.651332.65133
Au moment de faire la lecture à sa petite fille sur le point de s'endormir, Alice, désormais jeune maman, traverse le miroir de la chambre. De retour au pays des merveilles, dans ses habits d'enfant, elle rencontre tour à tour la Reine Rouge, d'insolentes fleurs qui parlent, des pièces d'échec aussi humaines qu'elle, une Reine Blanche qui se souvient des événements avant qu'ils n'aient lieu, un gros oeuf perché au sommet d'une tour… Alors que, dans les bois, rôde le Jabberwocky, un terrible dragon, Alice joue à un étrange et gigantesque jeu dont elle sort victorieuse. Désormais reine, elle participe à un banquet riche en surprises…
The Age of Innocence, 2h19
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Mary Beth Hurt
Roles Mrs. Archer
Rating71% 3.598223.598223.598223.598223.59822
Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis) is planning to marry the respectable May Welland (Winona Ryder). May's cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) has returned to New York which causes a shock in society circles. The Countess unwisely married a Polish Count, who took her fortune and mistreated her; she left him to return to New York.
Heidi (miniseries), 3h13
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Noley Thornton, Jason Robards, Jane Seymour, Jane Hazlegrove, Patricia Neal, Siân Phillips
Roles Frau Sesemann
Rating76% 3.806013.806013.806013.806013.80601
At the beginning of part one of the miniseries, Heidi is being raised by her cousin Dete in Switzerland following the death of her parents. Dete soon becomes selfish and unwilling to incur the costs of raising Heidi. Dete decides to take Heidi to live in the Alps with her grandfather. Her grandfather is still distraught over the death of his son, whom he had fought with shortly before his passing. This leads him to initially resent Heidi’s presence. However, as the story progresses, Heidi’s innocence and charm break through her grandfather’s tough exterior. She also makes friends with a young goat herder named Peter.
Dark River
Dark River (1990)

Genres Drama
Actors Tom Bell, Ian McNeice, Siân Phillips, Kate Buffery, Tony Haygarth, Freddie Jones
Roles Mrs. Blessington

On the banks of a river flowing through the lowlands of Africa, the British have set up a colony without the constraints of European civilization. Into this tight-knit community a stranger (Deacon) strays, refusing to abide by its self-serving code. He is immediately set at odds with the locals: a businessman (K B Priestley) who employs his authority in the community to disguise his personal weaknesses, his daughter (Lydia) who uses the men in the community as rungs in her climb out of provincialism; a sour, manipulative club barman (Yorkie); a widow and cocoa heiress (Mrs Blessington) who plays puppet-master from a distance; hero of the bars (Oliver) with his dubious investment schemes, sardonic gossip columnist Jane Audeby, and club waiter Elias who becomes his most candid counsellor.
Valmont
Valmont (1989)
, 2h17
Directed by Miloš Forman, Thomas Vincent, Philippe Bérenger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Siân Phillips, Jeffrey Jones
Roles Madame de Volanges
Rating69% 3.4970453.4970453.4970453.4970453.497045
In eighteenth century France, the Marquise de Merteuil (Annette Bening), a beautiful wealthy widow, learns from her cousin Madame de Volanges (Siân Phillips) that Volanges' 15-year-old daughter Cecile (Fairuza Balk) has been betrothed to a middle-age man named Gercourt (Jeffrey Jones)—Merteuil's own secret lover. Volanges confides in Merteuil that the arranged marriage required that Cecile be raised in a convent to ensure her chastity. Unaware that Merteuil is Gercourt's paramour, Volanges reveals that according to Gercourt, he is having trouble breaking off relations with his "former" mistress who is mentally unbalanced.
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, 5h10
Directed by John Erman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Stephen Collins, Ann-Margret, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Ashley, Bruce Boa, Peter Eyre
Roles Duchess of Windsor
Rating74% 3.730943.730943.730943.730943.73094
The Doctor and the Devils, 1h33
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Stephen Rea, Phyllis Logan
Roles Annabella Rock
Rating61% 3.054563.054563.054563.054563.05456
Dr. Thomas Rock (Timothy Dalton) is a respected 19th-century anatomist lecturing at a prominent medical school. He is deeply passionate about improving medical knowledge, a pursuit for which he believes "the ends justify the means." Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession, necessitating the use of graverobbers or "Resurrection men" by the medical establishment to procure additional specimens. Dr. Rock's young assistant Dr. Murray (Julian Sands) is given the task of buying the bodies, for which he is authorized to pay a small fortune, particularly for fresher corpses. When alcoholic miscreants Fallon (Jonathan Pryce) and Broom (Stephen Rea) overhear details of the arrangement, they begin to murder the locals and sell their bodies. Gradually, Dr. Murray becomes more suspicious of the string of fresh bodies turning up at the medical school, but Dr. Rock dismisses his concerns. Meanwhile, Murray has begun to fall for beautiful local prostitute Jennie Bailey (Twiggy), who soon becomes the target of Fallon and Broom's murderous enterprise. When Jennie's friend Alice (Nichola McAuliffe) turns up dead in Dr. Rock's dissection room, Murray realizes what is happening and heroically rescues Jennie from a murderous Fallon. Both killers are soon arrested, but Broom agrees to turn state's evidence against his former partner, and is set free, unrepentant. Fallon is executed by hanging. Dr. Rock, for his part in the killings, is the subject of widespread public outrage, but ultimately not punished or censured by his colleagues. The film ends with Rock pondering his responsibility for the horrors and concluding, "oh my God -- I knew what I was doing.
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films about extraterrestrial life, Witches in film, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller, Tony Cox, Paul Gleason, Carel Struycken
Roles Charal
Rating54% 2.700612.700612.700612.700612.70061
While preparing to leave the forest moon of Endor, the Towani family (Jeremitt, Catrine, Mace, and Cindel), the Ewok village is attacked by a group of marauders (originally crash landed from Sanyassa) led by Terak and his witch-like sorceress Charal. Many Ewoks are killed. Cindel escapes, but is forced to leave Jeremitt, Catrine and Mace to their probable doom, both parents having already been hit by enemy fire. Their fate is not explicitly told in the film, but Cindel later assumes that they have been killed.
Dune
Dune (1984)
, 2h17
Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Sur une planète fictive, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Dystopian films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Everett McGill, Sting, Max von Sydow, José Ferrer
Roles Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Rating62% 3.14923.14923.14923.14923.1492
Ten thousand years in the futurethe known universe is ruled by Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most important substance in the empire is the drug known as melange or "the spice". It has many special properties, such as extending life and expanding consciousness. The most profitable and important of its properties is its ability to assist the Spacing Guild with folding space, which allows safe, instantaneous interstellar travel.