Prunella Scales

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales, CBE (née Illingworth) is an English actress 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. Married to Timothy West, and mother of Samuel West.