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Prunella Scales

Actor

Prunella Scales

Acting
1954 — 2011 · 7 films
Lived
22 June 1932 — d. 2025
From
Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

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…

Career Signature

How Prunella Scales’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.