Prunella Scales | |
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Born | Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth 22 June 1932 Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England |
Education | Moira House Girls' School, Eastbourne; The Old Vic School; Ute Hagen, New York |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1952–2019 |
Television | |
Spouse | |
Children | 2, including Samuel West |
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales[1][2] CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English retired actor. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award)[citation needed] and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West.