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] (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English retired actor.[3] 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)[4] and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on narrowboats with her husband and fellow actor Timothy West.
"I'm an actor," she says