Sian Thomas
| Siân Thomas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
20 September 1953 Stratford-upon-Avon |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Known for | Playing Lady Macbeth, audiobooks, BBC's Merlin |
Siân Thomas (born 20 September 1953) is a Welsh actress who trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is known both for her work on stage and for her television appearances. Her voice is known to listeners both for her poetry readings on Radio 3 and for her audiobooks.
Thomas has appeared on stage, on TV and in films such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in which she played Amelia Bones.
In 2002 she appeared in London's West End theatre production Up for Grabs with Madonna. The critic Michael Billington commented that "Madonna is not positively bad: just technically awkward. But, fortunately, she is buttressed by strong supporting players. Sian Thomas, who can get a laugh simply through the flick of an eyelid, is superb as a Courtauld-trained consultant longing to get her revenge on the corporate world."
In 2004, Thomas played the leading role of Lady Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth at Stratford-on-Avon. Billington wrote that "Sian Thomas was also born to play Lady Macbeth. She has the right mixture of attack, sexiness and emotional drive", adding that she gave Shakespeare's sometimes complex lines exactly the right stress to bring out the subtle antitheses. He noted, too, that she brought out the character's steadily growing "tactical and emotional isolation".
In the musical Spring Awakening in London in 2009, she and Richard Cordery played "all the adult roles with cartoon-like aplomb".
In 2010, Thomas played the leading role of the queen in the National Theatre Wales's production of Aeschylus's The Persians, described by The Guardian as "a tremendous performance as the queen, a woman of fiery splendour reduced to ululating agony as the disasters mount and she cries 'this is the peak of my misery'."
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