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Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth CBE (born
22 June 1932) is an
English actress.
She is probably best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's long-suffering wife Sybil in the
British comedy Fawlty Towers.
She is also known for her award-nominated role as
Elizabeth II the
British film A Question of Attribution.
She has had a long and distinguished career as an actress mostly in comic roles. Her early film roles included
Pride and Prejudice and
Hobson's Choice.
Her first career break came with the early
1960s sitcom,
Marriage Lines starring opposite
Richard Briers. She has had major roles in
BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, most notably
After Henry,
Smelling of Roses and
Ladies of Letters; on television she starred in the
London Weekend Television/
Channel 4 series
Mapp & Lucia based on the bestselling novels by
E. F. Benson. She played
Queen Elizabeth II in
Alan Bennett's
A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed up with BBC Television actor & comedian
Ronnie Barker in the (original) award-winning one-off
Meat, which aired as
One Man's Meat and was part of a series called
Seven of One, also for the BBC. Her film appearances also include
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Stiff Upper Lips (1997) and
Howard's End (1992). More recently she was seen in a series of
Tesco supermarket commercials as a domineering mother, Dottie Turnbull, with
Jane Horrocks as her long-suffering daughter.
Scales narrowly missed out on the role of "Eth" in
The Glums, part of
Take It From Here, written by
Frank Muir and
Denis Norden; the role went to
June Whitfield.
She is married to the British actor
Timothy West, and has two sons; their eldest is the actor and director
Samuel West. In
2003, she appeared as Hilda, alias "she who must be obeyed", wife of
Horace Rumpole in a series of four BBC Radio 4 plays, with her husband playing her fictional husband. Prunella Scales and Timothy West toured
Australia at the same time in different productions. Scales appeared in a one-woman show called "
An Evening with Queen Victoria".
Scales is a supporter of the
Labour Party, and appeared on a Labour
party political broadcast during the
2005 UK general election campaign. She is also a loyal supporter of the
SOS Children's Villages charity.
Her authorised biography,
Prunella, written by
Teresa Ransom, was published by John Murray in 2005. She is also a patron of the
Lace Market Theatre in
Nottingham, United Kingdom. In 2005 she named the
P&O cruise ship,
Artemis.
On
16 November 2007, Prunella Scales made an appearance during
Children in Need, acting as Sybil Fawlty, the new manager who wants to take over Hotel Babylon.
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