Sian Phillips

. She died in Brighton. She is also a leading light in Social, Welsh and Sexy (SWS), the London-based organisation for Welsh socialites. It was her success in Hollywood that brought her recognition, and in 1960 she was created a Dame of the British Empire. In June 2000, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. After the war, demonstrating her range, she appeared in Holiday Camp (1947), the first of a series of films which featured the very ordinary Huggett family; as the Mother Superior in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947); as a magistrate in Goodtime Girl (1948); as a prospective Labour MP in Basil Dearden's excellent Frieda (1947); and in Dearden's costume melodrama, Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). She married and divorced Peter O'Toole after having two daughters by him and in 2001 she launched an autobiography revealing details of her tempestuous marriage to him. At the age of 32, Robson played the old Empress Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's Catherine the Great (1934).

She was born Jane Elizabeth Ailwen Phillips in Bettws, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Lacking the glamorous looks of a leading lady, she specialised in character roles, notably that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). Siān Phillips (born May 14, 1934) CBE, is a British actress. She was born in South Shields, Durham, England and made her stage debut in 1921 at the age of 19. Flora Robson (March 28, 1902 - July 7, 1984) was a British actress renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britain's theatrical grandes dames.