theartsdesk Q&A: Actress Siân Phillips
Siân Phillips (b 1933) belongs to the remarkable generation of British actresses. They include Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Joan Plowright and Sheila Hancock. Although just as indomitable a presence on stage and screen, Phillips is set apart from them not only by dint of her Welshness "Welsh was her mother language as a child - but also by the curious shape of her career.read mo…