Prunella Scales
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.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
Casualty
Silent Witness
Agatha Christie's Marple
BBC Play of the Month
Bergerac
Playhouse
An Audience with...
Dalziel and Pascoe
Loose Women
Fawlty Towers
Thirty-Minute Theatre
ScreenPlay
Never the Twain
Target
After Henry
Country Matters
Theatre Night
Great Canal Journeys
Howards End
Wolf
Mapp & Lucia
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Emma
Unnatural Causes
No Image
Faces of Jim
No Image
Look at the State We're In!
Seven of One
The Boys from Brazil
Dickens