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.
Awards & recognition
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1992
Filmography29 titles
Great Canal Journeys
Consuming Passions
Fawlty Towers
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Royal
Midsomer Murders
Silent Witness
Hobson's Choice
The Phone Call
Howards End
My Friend Walter
The Shell Seekers
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Room at the Top
Second Best
Bergerac
The Boys from Brazil
Emma
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
What Every Woman Wants
Dalziel and Pascoe
Casualty
Wolf
The Crowded Day
Stiff Upper Lips
Horrid Henry: The Movie
The Wicked Lady
The Hound of the Baskervilles