Families of Abertawe & Gŵyr
Swansea & Neath Port Talbot
Copper, tinplate, Gower, Dylan Thomas's town and the western horn of Glamorgan.
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Families seated in Abertawe & Gŵyr
Historic ties to Abertawe & Gŵyr
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Abertawe & Gŵyr.
- Dame Siân PhillipsThe Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen miner's daughter whose Welsh was her first language, took RADA at seventeen, played Livia in the BBC's I, Claudius as a landmark of British classical television, and ran a sixty-five-year English-language and Welsh-language acting career.
- Dylan ThomasThe Swansea-born Welsh poet whose Deaths and Entrances (1946) returned a fresh English-language lyric to the post-war reader, whose radio drama Under Milk Wood (broadcast 1954) is one of the central works of the BBC Third Programme, and whose 1951 villanelle Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is on every modern anthology of twentieth-century English verse.
- Sir Anthony HopkinsThe Port Talbot-born Welsh actor whose performance as Dr Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991) won the Academy Award for Best Actor on twenty-four minutes and fifty-two seconds of screen-time, and whose 2020 performance in Florian Zeller's The Father took the second Best Actor Oscar at eighty-three, making him the oldest winner of the Best Actor award in Academy history.
- Sir Gareth EdwardsThe Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen-born Welsh scrum-half whose fifty-three consecutive caps for Wales between 1967 and 1978, three Five Nations Grand Slams (1971, 1976, 1978), two Lions tour series wins (1971 in New Zealand and 1974 in South Africa, both as part of unbeaten Lions tours), and his single greatest try (the Barbarians try against the All Blacks at Cardiff Arms Park on the twenty-seventh of January 1973) made him by general acclamation the greatest rugby union player of the twentieth century.