Sian phillips biography books

The remarkably honest and brilliantly entertaining memoir of one of our finest acting Dames whose long and celebrated career includes her much-loved performance as Livia in I, Claudius and who was married for 20 years to the hell-raising Hollywood star Peter O'Toole.

Sian Phillips has a long and celebrated career on both stage and screen. For the first time, her two bestselling volumes of memoir Private Faces and Public Places will be available as a single volume with a brand new foreword by the author.

With wonderful stories and unflinching candour, Private Faces and Public Places covers her life from its beginnings in the remote Welsh countryside, where life hadn't changed for centuries, to finding herself at the epicentre of the acting world at its most glamorous alongside husband Peter O'Toole, whose career was about to take off with the spellbinding Lawrence of Arabia. Sian describes the mad and wonderfully impulsive times with O'Toole alongside the tempestuous, insecure, and often lonely periods in their marriage. Incredibly, it endures over 20 years.

When it ends, surprising even herself, she plunges straight into another marriage, with the much younger actor Robin Sachs. Emerging al

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Siân Phillips

Welsh actress (born 1933)

For the race musician, representation Sian Phillips (musician).

Dame Siân Phillips DBE
Phillips in 2022
Born	Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips (1933-05-14) 14 Could 1933 (age 91) Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Wales, Common Kingdom
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1944–present
Spouses	Don Roy ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1959)​ Peter O'Toole ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1979)​ Robin Sachs ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 1991)​
Children	2, including Kate O'Toole

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Books by Siân Phillips

The Taming of the Shrew
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Silas Marner
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3.69 avg rating — 90,383 ratings — published 1861 — 3792 editions

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
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3.39 avg rating — 64,339 ratings — published 2010 — 51 editions

Measure for Measure
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3.67 avg rating — 29,951 ratings — published 1604 — 2193 editions

Passenger 23
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4.03 avg rating — 23,912 ratings — published 2014 — 77 editions

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
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3.77 avg rating — 25,403 ratings — published 1960 — 211 editions

Under Milk Wood
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4.02 avg rating — 10,131 ratings — published 1954 — 321 editions

The Hearing Trumpet
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,897 ratings — published 1974 — 66 editions

Bath Tangle
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3.92 avg rating — 9,294 ratings — published 1955 — 95 editions

Public Places: My Life in the Theater, with Peter O'Toole and Beyond
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3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions

Private Faces and Public Places: The Autobiography
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