Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 22, 1932
Place of Birth
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
- Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales
- Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth
- پرونلا اسکیلز
Prunella Scales
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 - Movies
Sub Rosa
as Madame
Wolf
as Maude Waggins
Howards End
as Aunt Juley
Emma
as Miss Bates
The Boys from Brazil
as Mrs. Harrington
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Rose
Hobson's Choice
as Vicky Hobson
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as Moira O'Neill
Room at the Top
as Council Office Worker (uncredited)
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Queen (voice)
Known For - TV Shows
Midsomer Murders
as Eleanor Bunsall
Casualty
as Jocelyn Anderson
Silent Witness
as Anne Parker
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs Mackenzie
Bergerac
as Gloria Gibbins
BBC Play of the Month
as Queen Jemima
Playhouse
as Florence Farr
An Audience with...
as Self
Loose Women
as Self
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Marie