Prunella Scales

Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She became best known as Sybil Fawlty in the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers, which ran from 1975 to 1979. Prunella Scales gets linked to nude searches, but her scene in Unnatural Causes (1986) is suggestive rather than nudity. She was born on June 22, 1932, in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England. Her turn as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (1991) earned her a BAFTA nomination. Later she travelled canals in the UK and abroad for a television series with her husband, the actor Timothy West. She died on October 27, 2025, at the age of ninety-three.