SIÂN PHILLIPS
Fact File
Roman matriarch Siân’s best known for her role as Livia in the 1976 adaptation of I, Claudius.
Hollywood calling She starred in the 1969 film Goodbye, Mr Chips and Under Milk Wood (1972) alongside her then-husband Peter O’Toole.
Double bluff The veteran stage star was a regular face on the 1980s game show Call My Bluff.
Siân appears in Tuesday’s episode of Doctors as Joan Bartlett, who stuns her son, Derek, when she announces her plans to travel to Prague for a facelift. Derek tries to enlist Zara to put a stop to his mother’s operation on health grounds. But with Derek’s wife, Marcie, desperate to get her hands on Joan’s cash, it appears Derek is not being totally honest…