Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales
CBE
Scales pictured in 2010
Born
Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth

(1932-06-22) 22 June 1932 (age 92)
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England
EducationMoira House Girls' School, Eastbourne; The Old Vic School; Ute Hagen, New York
OccupationActor
Years active1952–2019
Television
Spouse
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(m. 1963)​
Children2, including Samuel West

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales[1][2] CBE (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actress. 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.

  1. ^ The International Who's Who, 1997–98, Europa Publications, p. 1332.
  2. ^ The International Who's Who of Women 2002, 3rd edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2000 , p. 510.