Siân Phillips Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Veteran stage actress Sian Phillips is forever identified on television as the tarantula mother/empress Livia in the classic BBC series I, Claudius (1976), and as the Reverend Mother in the science fiction epic film Dune (1984). Her broad range of roles went from endearing to downright deadly. Phillips was born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips in ...
Full Name
Siân Phillips
Net Worth
$1 Million
Date Of Birth
May 14, 1933
Place Of Birth
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, United Kingdom
Height
5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Profession
Actor, Author, Singer
Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Cardiff University
Nationality
British
Spouse
Robin Sachs, Peter O'Toole, Don Roy
Children
Kate O'Toole, Patricia O'Toole
Parents
David Phillips, Sally Thomas
IMDB
Awards
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical...
Movies
Dune, Becket, Murphy's War, Clash of the Titans, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Valmont, The Age of Innocence, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Under Milk Wood, The Gigolos, Nijinsky, Laughter in the Dark, Young Cassidy, House of America, The Doctor and the Devils, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Black Candle...
TV Shows
How Green Was My Valley, I, Claudius, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, Heidi, Aristocrats, The Magician's House, The Murder Room, Attila, The Scold's Bridle, A Killing on the Exchange, The Other Man
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
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Regal smooth voice
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Husky resonant voice
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Severe chiseled looks
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Arch, regal bearing
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Quote
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[on playing Madame Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, in 2010, some 15 years after first playing the role in London]: Fifteen years later the idea of mortality isn't as academic. The part is short, but quite tricky technically. There's never time to build. You have to come on and hit the right note in each scene precisely. And you have to figure out who she is. She has grand style, and also such spite and venom. She's so successful, so glittering and hard, but then at the end she wonders if she played everything wrong. I don't think I got all that the first time.
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Upon receiving her C.B.E. in 2000, "I still have a very heavy schedule. I haven't been off the stage for the last seven years - and at weekends, I appear in cabaret."
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Fact
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As well as being nominated for both a Tony and Olivier award for 'Marlene', Dame Sian has also received two further Olivier nominations for 'Cabaret' and 'A Little Night Music'.
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Made a Dame of The British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's 2015 /2016 New Year's Honours List.
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She was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama. She is an actress in London, England.
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Performing in "The Importance of Being Earnest", Trafalgar Studios, London 2014.
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Appeared in David Lynch's Dune with Patrick Stewart, who she'd previously appeared with in I Claudius.
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Her two former husbands, Peter O'Toole and Robin Sachs, died in the same year.
She played Livia, the wife of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, in I, Claudius (1976) whereas her ex-husband Peter O'Toole played Augustus in Imperium: Augustus (2003).
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Although she played George Baker's mother in I, Claudius (1976), she is actually two years his junior.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1999 Tony Award a Best Actress (Musical) for portraying Marlene Dietrich in "Marlene".
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Became an Associate Member of RADA.
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She was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Musical of 1997 season for her performance in "Marlene".
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Served on the Welsh National Council and as a governor of the National Theatre of Wales, and received Wales' highest theatrical honor -- membership in the Honorary Order of Druids -- in recognition of her services to Welsh drama.
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
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Finally got her driver's license, but never drives due to her nerves.
