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Awards achieved by Siân Phillips while a student at University College Cardiff, where she read English and Philosophy, comprising: Welsh Students Eisteddfod (Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Myfyrwyr Cymru) Award for recitation (1951); Bachelor of Arts award from University College Cardiff (1954), which is inscribed with Siân Phillips' birth name of Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips.

Printed Philosophy examination paper, 1954, of University College Cardiff, where Siân Phillips read English and Philosophy. Annotated in Siân Phillips' hand.

Certificates denoting awards and honours awarded to Siân Phillips in recognition of her work in the theatre, comprising: Laurence Olivier Award 1996 for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (A Little Night Music) (nominated); Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards 1996 for Best Actress in a Visiting Production (Marlene) (nominated); Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award [1999] for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Marlene) (nominated); Drama Desk Award [1999] for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Marlene) (nominated); Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance 1998-1999 (Marlene) (recognition); Olivier Award 2013 for Best Performance in a Supporting Rôle in a Musical (Cabaret) (nominated); UK Theatre Award for Best Supporting Performance 2013 (This Is My Family) (nominated); BBC Audio Drama Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 (won); together with the list of nominations for musical theatre achievement 1980 and the list of nominations for the 1998 Laurence Olivier Awards.

Material relating to the numerous stage productions in which Siân Phillips has appeared throughout her career, beginning with the school, chapel and Urdd events of her childhood, through her acting rôles while studying at Cardiff University and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and continuing for the duration of her professional life. Some of the productions co-star Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole, or her third husband, Robin Sachs. The material includes Siân Phillips' guest appearances at public events. A substantial number of the items are annotated by Siân Phillips and/or by friends and colleagues.

St Davids Award for Culture certificate awarded to Siân Phillips, 12 March 2015; together with awards ceremony dinner menu.

Material relating to the sound recordings (other than audiobooks - for which, see Audiobooks) in which Siân Phillips has participated during the course of her career. The items comprise: I Remember Mama (1985); A Little Night Music (1990-1); And So It Goes (2003); Graceless IV (2016); Doctor Who: The War Master: The Walls of Absence (2020)

Press articles relating to the private and professional life of Siân Phillips, most of which also reference her second husband Peter O'Toole, her daughters Kate O'Toole and Pat O'Toole and her third husband Robin Sachs; together with miscellaneous press articles not directly related to Siân Phillips or her family but some of which reference leading figures in the theatrical world, Welsh current affairs or notable Welsh figures. Some items annotated by Siân Phillips.

Papers and other material relating to the personal life and professional career of the Welsh actress Siân Phillips, which include material relating to her early education and training and to her subsequent many and varied stage and screen rôles; correspondence from family members and from her myriad friends and colleagues in the world of theatre and film; press articles, etc relating to her stormy marriage to legendary actor Peter O'Toole; notebooks and diaries containing day-to-day schedules and personal reflections; and the copious preparatory material which went into the publication of her two-volume autobiography, Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001).

Material donated March 2023, which includes diaries, notebooks and press cuttings, have been amalgamated within the existing archive.

Printed book by Siân Phillips entitled Siân Phillips' Needlepoint, published in 1987.

Material relating to the film and television productions in which Siân Phillips has appeared during the course of her career, from her school days in the 1940s through to the present day (2022). Several of the television productions are recordings of, or screen adaptations of, stage plays. Some of the productions also star Siân Phillips' second husband Peter O'Toole. A number of items are annotated by Siân Phillips and others.

Awards achieved by Siân Phillips (then known by her birth name of Jane Phillips) during her time at Pontardawe Grammar School, largely comprising certificates denoting successes in Urdd Eisteddfod competitions and in school examinations.

Miscellaneous material relating to Siân Phillips' period of study at Pontardawe Grammar School, including photocopied photograph of staff and prefects, 1950-1951, with names written on dorse; photocopied photograph of the cast of Tobias and the Angel, performed by the school 1951-2 (Siân (then Jane) Phillips, as the angel, seated in front row); manuscript list of school staff, c. 1949-1950; pieces written by Siân (then Jane) Phillips, the one titled 'Dramatic Society', the other 'A Visit to France' (both photocopied); and Siân (then Jane) Phillips' school reports, 1943, 1948, 1949. Together with printed copies of School Certificate examination papers, dated July 1934, and photocopied photograph of school staff, 1938, both of which would have predated Siân Phillips' period of attendance.

Copy of death certificate of Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips, 11 February 1985; and printed order of Sally Phillips' funeral service, 19 February 1985.

Material relating to Siân Phillips winning the Bancroft Gold Medal award while a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, which she attended from 1955 to 1957, including a congratulatory note from Kenneth Barnes, one-time Principal of RADA; certificate awarded to Siân Phillips on her achievement of the William Poel Memorial Prize, 18 March 1957.

Press cutting announcing Siân Phillips' admission to RADA via scholarship in September 1955.

Honours Diploma certificate awarded to Siân Phillips on leaving RADA in December 1957.

Miscellaneous material relating to Siân Phillips' period of study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, including qualifiying passages; prospectus; student timetable; notes on vocal and postural exercises; annotated scripts; progress reports; list of candidates in a Shakespeare speaking test, autographed by participating students; notice of student productions at the Vanbrugh Theatre; items in Siân Phillips' hand; printed items annotated by Siân Phillips. Some items torn and consequently somewhat fragile.

Two items have been subsequently added to this collection in August 2023: Photocopied record of stage rôles played during 1956-7 by Sian Phillips whilst studying at RADA; together with a printed programme of a RADA production of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, staged at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, 3 December 1957, in which Siân Phillips took the leading rôle.

Material relating to the radio productions in which Siân Phillips has participated during the course of her career, from her early contributions during the 1940s and 1950s through to 2020. The King-Emperor (Radio 3, [1983]) featured in the cast Siân Phillips' third husband, actor Robin Sachs. Much of the material is annotated by Siân Phillips and others. The items comprise: Addunedau Fil (1948); Gwaed yr Uchelwyr [1950s]; The Love of Lady Margaret (1972); The Love of Adolphe and Eleanor [1975x1980]; Vivat Rex (1977); Countess Cathleen (1978); Peace Games (1979); A Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) (1979); A Dance to the Music of Time (1980); The Wind of Heaven (1980); London, Look You (1980); The Collections (1980); The Abbess of Crewe (1981); Bequest to the Nation (1981); With Great Pleasure (1982); The Jigsaw Must Fit [1983]; Ghosts (1983); St David's Day Gala (1983); Oedipus [1983]; The King-Emperor [1983]; Hippolytus [1984]; The Other Lake [1984]; Oedipus Rex (1985); Skirmishes (1985); Barnes' People (1986); The Visit (1987); The Mote in the Eye (1987); A Song At Twilight [1987]; A Bullet in the Ballet (1987); Strange Delights (1988); With Passport And Parasol [1988]; The Unbearable Bassington [1990s]; Down Your Way In Dinefwr (1990); The Physicists (1991); Gentleman and Ladies [1992]; Suffer the Little Children (1993); The Sea, The Sea [1993]; Murder on the Orient Express (1993); Cover Her Face [1993]; Offa's Daughter (1993); Bolt (1994); At Bertram's Hotel (1995); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2002); All's Well That Ends Well (2002); The Leopard in Autumn (2002); Under Milk Wood (2003); Patricia, Edith and Arnold (2003); Mind The Gap (2004); Agnes (2007); Teulu Bach Nantoer (2007); Hindenburg (2009); Tridiau yn Chwefror (2011); BBC Symphony Orchestra concerts 2011-12 (2012); Iz (2014); Hide the Moon (2014); Pygmalion (2017); Ode to Saint Cecilia [2017]; The Things We Never Said (2017); Hilda (2018); Yr Eumenides (2018); The Aspern Papers (2018); Hilda (2018); The Macefield Plot (2019); On a Lost Highway (2020); Break of Day (2020);

Material relating to the writing of Siân Phillips' two volumes of autobiography, Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001), and to a book entitled Siân Phillips' Needlepoint, published in 1987.

Material relating to the writing of Siân Phillips' two- volume autobiography, Private Faces (1999) and Public Places (2001), mainly comprising manuscript and printed drafts of the text, together with printed copies of both volumes. Letters sent to Siân Phillips in response to both volumes are kept in a separate envelope, correspondents including Gwynn Pritchard, then Head of Welsh Broadcasting at BBC Cymru/Wales; novelist and journalist Shirley Conran; novelist Alun Richards; Welsh stage and screen actor Keith Baxter; Dafydd Wigley, then Member of the Welsh Assembly and Member of Parliament for Caernarfon; and Siân Phillips' sister-in-law Pat O'Toole.

Press articles relating to the private and professional lives of Siân Phillips, her second husband Peter O'Toole, their daughters Kate O'Toole and Pat O'Toole and to Siân Phillips' third husband Robin Sachs, the contents ranging from Siân Phillips' earliest school successes to her latter-day career. Some items annotated by Siân Phillips. Together with miscellaneous press articles not directly related to Siân Phillips or her family but some of which reference leading figures in the theatrical world, Welsh current affairs or notable Welsh figures.

Miscellaneous items relating to Siân Phillips' second husband, stage and screen actor Peter O'Toole, comprising photograph of O'Toole as a boy playing the bagpipes (annotated on dorse in Siân Phillips' hand: 'O'Toole'); watercolour drawing of Peter O'Toole in the rôle of Shylock (The Merchant of Venice, 1960); printed copy of Loughborough National Union of Students' Drama Festival programme 1962-1963, at which Peter O'Toole gave a talk entitled 'The Hazards of Acting'; printed theatre programme for a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's 1923 play Baal, in which Peter O'Toole played the title character; printed theatre programme for a 1969 production of Samuel Beckett's 1952 play Waiting for Godot, in which Peter O'Toole played Vladimir; bound first draft screenplay of Peter Shaffer's 1962 play The Public Eye, inscribed on cover 'P O'T[oole]'; material, which contains some annotation by Peter O'Toole, relating to Man of La Mancha, a 1972 musical film adaptation by Dale Wasserman of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, in which Peter O'Toole played the title character; agreements made between H. M. Tennant of the Globe Theatre, London and Alexander Film Productions Ltd whereby Siân Phillips became the investor in a 1976 play by Peter King titled Dead Eyed Dicks (1976), together with summary of accounts relating to the same play (1976 agreement annotated in Siân Phillips' hand to the effect that O'Toole 'forced' her to invest in what she calls 'this awful play'); 1977 agreement annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'Invested £2,500.00 against Sara's [Randall, Siân's theatrical agent] wishes Never saw a penny'); photocopied bill from the Hotel Danieli, Venice, dated 26 September 1977, made out to 'Peter O'Toole Keep Films Ltd' and signed by O'Toole (annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'our favourite hotel'); photocopied list in Peter O'Toole's hand headed 'P. O'T DAILY LIFE NEEDS' and dated 10 April 1979 (annotated in Siân Phillips' hand 'He wrote this out for someone!'); and undated notes in Peter O'Toole's hand written on headed paper printed with 'Siân Phillips', one folio also including Siân Phillips' hand.