Prunella Scales
Acting
Born June 22, 1932 · Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales CBE (née Illingworth; 22 June 1932) was an English former actor, best known for playing Sybil Fawlty, wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers; for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award); and for the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), in which she travels on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West.
Known For · 40 titles
Midsomer Murders
Casualty
Loose Women
Silent Witness
BBC Play of the Month
Agatha Christie's Marple
Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Bergerac
Film '72
ScreenPlay
Dalziel and Pascoe
An Audience with...
Fawlty Towers
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Screen One
Never the Twain
Target
After Henry
Howards End
Great Canal Journeys
Unnatural Causes
Marriage Lines
Country Matters
Mapp & Lucia
Theatre Night
Faces of Jim
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
The Boys from Brazil
Emma
Wolf
Look at the State We're In!
Seven of One
Thompson
Sub Rosa
Weekend Playhouse
The Wicked Lady
Dickens
Room at the Top
Pride and Prejudice