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Prunella Scales

1932 - Today

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Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English retired actress. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991), for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award. She was also twice nominated at the Laurence Olivier Awards, in 1980 for Make and Break and in 1990 for Single Spies. Additionally, she appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on narrowboats with her husband and fellow actor Timothy West. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prunella Scales is the 6,803rd most popular actor (down from 6,547th in 2019), the 5,139th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,813th in 2019) and the 765th most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Prunella Scales ranks 6,803 out of 13,578. Before her are Juliana Paes, Laurent Lafitte, Sam Bottoms, Mark Feuerstein, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Adriana Ozores. After her are Seohyun, George E. Stone, Marie Prevost, Kaitlin Olson, Pearl Bailey, and Heiner Lauterbach.

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Among people born in 1932, Prunella Scales ranks 500. Before her are Barbara Shelley, Judy Tyler, Inga Swenson, Abby Dalton, Sheree North, and Roger Smith. After her are Lou Jones, Mike Hodges, Anatoli Isayev, Poul Pedersen, Djibril Tamsir Niane, and Kiril Rakarov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prunella Scales ranks 5,141 out of 8,785. Before her are Lucy Morton (1898), Annie Lorrain Smith (1854), Philip Hall (1904), Martin Taylor (1979), Dora Marsden (1882), and Harry Ricardo (1885). After her are Stella Gibbons (1902), Ron Greenwood (1921), Ian Raby (1921), William Dod (1867), Emilia Lanier (1569), and Mina Loy (1882).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Prunella Scales ranks 765. Before her are Robert Webb (1972), Mary Millar (1936), Ann Sidney (1944), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), Pamela Brown (1917), and Stephanie Beacham (1947). After her are Juliet Stevenson (1956), Simone Ashley (1995), Heather Angel (1909), Gina McKee (1964), Dawn French (1957), and Jason Watkins (1962).

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