Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales | |
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Scales in 2010 | |
| Born | Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth 22 June 1932 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1952–2014 |
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| Children | Samuel West Joe West Julie West (step-daughter) |
Prunella Scales (born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth; 22 June 1932) is an 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 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.[2]
References
- ↑ "Prunella Scales Biography (1932-)". filmreference.com. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Prunella Scales suffering from 'a sort of mild Alzheimer's'". The Guardian. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
Other websites
Media related to Prunella Scales at Wikimedia Commons
- Prunella Scales on IMDb
- Prunella Scales at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Prunella Scales at the Internet Broadway Database
- "Sybil Fawlty played by Prunella Scales". fawltysite.net. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.