
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.
TV Shows(30)

Great Canal Journeys
Self

Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs Mackenzie

The Royal
Red Admiral
Looking for Victoria
Self / Victoria

Dickens
Elizabeth Dickens

Loose Women
Self

Midsomer Murders
Eleanor Bunsall

Keeping Mum
Marjorie

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Mrs. Duffel

Silent Witness
Anne Parker

Dalziel and Pascoe
Edith Disney

The World of Lee Evans
Mother

Signs and Wonders
Elizabeth Palmore
Look at the State We're In!
Storyteller

The Rector's Wife
Marjorie Richardson

Screen One
H.M.Q.
Thompson

After Henry
Sarah France

Casualty
Jocelyn Anderson

Unnatural Causes
Judith