
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.

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997

Silent Witness
TV • 1996

Casualty
TV • 1986

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004

Bergerac
TV • 1981

Playhouse
TV • 1974

An Audience with...
TV • 1978

Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996

Loose Women
TV • 1999

Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965

Fawlty Towers
TV • 1975

Target
TV • 1977

Never the Twain
TV • 1981

Seven of One
TV • 1973

Emma
MOVIE • 1996

After Henry
TV • 1988

Mapp & Lucia
TV • 1985