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    2025-10-27

    1932-06-2294 years, 4 months, and 12 days old

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    Place of birth:

    Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England, UK

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Female

    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.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 107

    Title
    Wolf
    Maude Waggins
    6.1
    1994-06-17
    4.3113
    The Shell Seekers
    Dolly Keeling
    6.9
    2007-10-18
    1.084
    Emma
    Miss Bates
    6.6
    1996-10-02
    4.1737
    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
    Moira O'Neill
    6.6
    1987-12-23
    1.3014
    Waltz of the Toreadors
    Estella Fitzjohn
    5
    1962-04-12
    1.045
    Hobson's Choice
    Vicky Hobson
    7.38
    1954-04-19
    1.8172
    Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
    Lady Moping
    0
    2006-05-07
    0.7025
    Breaking the Code
    Sara Turing
    5.6
    1996-09-17
    0.762
    A Question of Attribution
    H.M.Q.
    6.8
    1991-10-20
    0.9788
    Stiff Upper Lips
    Aunt Agnes
    5.6
    1998-06-12
    0.9883
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