Prunella scales biography of rory gilmore
Miranda Richardson's Mapp started as a simper-for-simper remake of Prunella Scales' memorably ghastly interpretation, before developing into her own.
From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for....
Prunella Scales
British actor (born 1932)
Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales[1][2] (néeIllingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English retired actor.[3] She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award)[4] and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on narrowboats with her husband and fellow actor Timothy West.
Early life
Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman who served as a lieutenant with the Wiltshire Regiment in the First World War,[5] and with the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War,[6][7] and Catherine, née Scales, known as "Bim", an actress who had