What is Prunella Scales?
{{Infobox person | name = Prunella Scales | image = Prunella Scales in 2010.JPG | caption = Scales in 2010 | birth_name = Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1932|06|22|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Sutton Abinger]], [[Surrey]], England<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/72/Prunella-Scales.html |title=Prunella Scales Biography (1932-) |work=filmreference.com |access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1952–2014 | spouse = {{marriage|[[Timothy West]]|1963|2024|reason=his death}} | children = [[Samuel West]]<br>Joe West<br>Julie West (step-daughter) }} '''Prunella Scales''' (born '''Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth'''; 22 June 1932) is an [[English people|English]] actress. She is best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the BBC comedy ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' and her [[BAFTA award]]-nominated role as [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] in ''[[A Question of Attribution]]'' (''[[Screen One]]'', BBC 1991) by [[Alan Bennett]]. In March 2014, her husband [[Timothy West]] revealed to ''[[The Guardian]]'' that Scales was living with [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/04/prunella-scales-suffering-mild-alzheimers |title=Prunella Scales suffering from 'a sort of mild Alzheimer's' |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 March 2014 |access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *{{IMDb name|768795}} *{{Screenonline name|567279}} *{{IBDB name|103600}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.fawltysite.net/people/sybil_fawlty.htm |title=Sybil Fawlty played by Prunella Scales |work=fawltysite.net |year=2013 |access-date=21 July 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010714/http://www.fawltysite.net/people/sybil_fawlty.htm