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===Later film and television=== [[File:Siân Phillips in "Crossing Borders".jpg|thumb|upright|Phillips at [[Wilton's Music Hall]] in London in 2011]] Her long career has included many films and television programmes, but she is perhaps best known for starring as [[Livia]] in the popular [[BBC]] adaptation of [[Robert Graves]]'s novel ''[[I, Claudius (TV series)|I, Claudius]]'' ([[BBC Two|BBC2]], 1976), for which she won the 1977 [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress]], and for many appearances on the original run of ''[[Call My Bluff (UK game show)|Call My Bluff]]''. She also appeared opposite her then-husband Peter O'Toole and [[Richard Burton]] in [[Becket (1964 film)|''Becket'']] (1964); as Ursula Mossbank in the musical film ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' (1969), again starring O'Toole; once more opposite O'Toole in ''[[Murphy's War]]'' (1971); as [[Emmeline Pankhurst]] in the TV mini-series ''[[Shoulder to Shoulder]]'' (1974); as [[Clementine Churchill]] in Southern Television's ''[[Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years]]'' (1981) starring [[Robert Hardy]]; as Lady Ann, the unfaithful wife of [[Alec Guinness]]'s character [[George Smiley]], in the [[BBC One|BBC1]] [[espionage]] dramas ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series)|Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy]]'' (1979) and ''[[Smiley's People (TV series)|Smiley's People]]'' (1982), adapted from [[John le Carré]]'s eponymous novels; in ''[[Nijinsky (film)|Nijinsky]]'' (1980); and as the queen Cassiopeia in ''[[Clash of the Titans (1981 film)|Clash of the Titans]]'' (1981). Another popular role was that of the [[Bene Gesserit|Reverend Mother]] [[Gaius Helen Mohiam]] in [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'' (1984) and Charal from ''[[Ewoks: The Battle for Endor]]'' (1985). She also appeared in seasons 2 and 4 (1998 and 2000) of the Canadian TV series ''[[La Femme Nikita (TV series)|La Femme Nikita]]'' as Adrian, the renegade founder of the powerful Section One anti-terrorist organisation. In 2001, she appeared as herself in ''[[Lily Savage's Blankety Blank]]''.<ref name="blanketyblank">{{Cite episode |series=[[Lily Savage's Blankety Blank]] |airdate=25 March 2001 |network=[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]}}</ref> and in ''[[Ballykissangel]]'' as faith healer Consuela Dunphy in Episode 7 ('One Born Every Minute' or 'Getting Better All the Time'). Her most recent film is ''[[The Gigolos]]'' (2006) by Richard Bracewell, in which she played Lady James. In 2010, she appeared in ''[[New Tricks]]'' in the episode "Coming out Ball" and in 2011 she appeared in the episode "Wild Justice" in the fifth season of the television series ''[[Lewis (TV series)|Lewis]]''. In 2017, she played Lady Yvette Bristow in the TV series ''[[Strike (TV series)|Strike]]''. In 2022, she appeared in the series ''[[McDonald & Dodds]]''. In 2024, Phillips portrayed Enid Meadows in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[73 Yards]]".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Griffin|first1=Louise|title=Doctor Who casts legendary British actress for new season |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-sian-phillips-cast-newsupdate/ |date=28 March 2024|access-date=31 May 2024|website=Radio Times |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-25 |title=BBC One - Doctor Who, Season 1, 73 Yards |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zpzs |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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