Thrice married and the wife of Peter O’Toole between 1959 and 1979, Siân Phillips was born in West Glamorgan and has two daughters. This actress extraordinaire took on her first professional role aged just 11 when she played a ginger tom cat on BBC Radio Wales and chose Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte soave sia il vento as her Desert Island Disc in 1997. She lives in Spitalfields and considers her biggest vice to be coffee.
