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Welsh-born stage veteran Dame Siân Phillips is forever identified on television as the tarantula mother/empress Livia in the classic BBC miniseries I, Claudius (1976) (for which she won a BAFTA-TV award), and as the Reverend Mother in the science fiction epic film Dune (1984).
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May 7, 2021 · Playing the role in the 1976 TV adaptation, Siân Phillips captured magnificently the ease with which this icy materfamilias was said to have manipulated the men around her. The Livia of...
Siân Phillips, star of the revived classic I, Claudius, is still acting at 90. She tells Sarah Ditum how she made the Roman Empress Livia so memorably evil.
Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips DBE (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips (/ ʃ ɑː n / SHAHN), is a Welsh actress. Her early career consisted primarily of stage roles, including the title roles in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
Jun 3, 2019 · I, Claudius (1976) - Livia (Siân Phillips) How to act as an evil queen. Siân Phillips interpreting a fearsome Livia, wife of the roman emperor Augustus.
Aug 6, 2024 · Through Derek Jacobi’s BAFTA award-winning performance as Claudius, Sian Phillips as Livia, Brian Blessed as Augustus, Patrick Stewart as Sejanus and John Hurt as Caligula, the 12-episode series...
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Aug 22, 2023 · Perhaps most memorable of all is Sîan Phillips’ Livia. There is a reason that Tony Soprano’s mother was called Livia, and that Rome squeezed this character into its over-stuffed final two ...