Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
June 22, 1932
Died
October 27, 2025 (93 years old)
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
Acting
7.3
The Phone Call
2013
4.4
Run For Your Wife
2012
5.2
Horrid Henry: The Movie
2011
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
3.2
Loose Women
1999
5.2
Stiff Upper Lips
1998
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
6.6
Emma
1996
5.1
Breaking the Code
1996
6.2
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
6.3
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
7.5
Silent Witness
1996
6.5
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
6.7
Second Best
1994
6.1
Wolf
1994
5.2
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
7.0
Howards End
1992
5.3
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
6.5
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
6.1
Casualty
1986
4.8
The Wicked Lady
1983
6.7
Bergerac
1981
6.7
The Boys from Brazil
1978
4.3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978