Prunella Scales - Famous Actor

Prunella Scales Net Worth

$2,000,000

Famous English actress Prunella Scales has a net worth of $2 million. Best known for her work in ‘Fawlty Towers’, Scales has also appeared in several TV series and films including ‘The Shell Seekers’, ‘Horrid Henry: The Movie’, and ‘Seven of One’ among others.

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The achievements of Prunella Scales mentioned in the given context are as follows:
  • Scales is an English actress who is known for her outstanding work in the field of comedy throughout her show business career.
  • Her breakthrough role was in the TV series 'Marriage Lines' alongside Richard Briers during the early 196s.
  • She starred as Sybil Fawlty, Basil Fawlty's wife, in the popular sitcom 'Fawlty Towers' until 1979 and received global recognition for her performance.
  • Scales earned a BAFTA Award nomination for her tremendous work in 'A Question of Attribution' as Queen Elizabeth II.
  • She has endorsed Tesco in TV ads for about ten years alongside Jane Horrocks, and has appeared in several political broadcasts for the Labour Party.
  • In 2003, she starred in a one-woman show called 'An Evening with Queen Victoria' and played the role of Magpie in the opera 'La gazza ladra'.
  • Scales also works as an ambassador to the charity SOS Children's Villages and is a patron of World Orphan week.

Basic Information About Prunella Scales

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor
Net worth$2,000,000
Date of birth1932-06-22 (92 years old)
Place of birthSutton Abinger
NationalityEngland
SpouseTimothy West - (October 1963 - present)Β (2 children)
GenderFemale
Height5 ft 3 in (1.61 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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Prunella Scales roles

Movie / Series Role
Howards EndAunt Juley
Johnny EnglishThe Queen (uncredited)
WolfMaude
The Boys from BrazilMrs. Harrington
Midsomer MurdersEleanor Bunsall 1 episode, 2000
Fawlty TowersSybil Fawlty 12 episodes, 1975-1979
Agatha Christie's MarpleMrs Mackenzie 1 episode, 2008
Where the Heart IsHattie Dymchurch 1 episode, 2005
BergeracGloria Gibbins 1 episode, 1981
Silent WitnessAnne Parker 2 episodes, 2001
Whodunnit?Self - Panellist 1 episode, 1977
The RoyalRed Admiral 1 episode, 2011
Dalziel and PascoeEdith Disney 1 episode, 1996
CasualtyJocelyn Anderson 1 episode, 2004
Loose WomenSelf 2 episodes, 2000-2007
Coronation StreetEileen Hughes 5 episodes, 1961

Prunella Scales's Quotes

  • The joy of being an actor is to deliver good writing to people.
  • "The agony of doing Shakespeare is that you can't ask him what he meant.

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Interesting Facts about Prunella Scales

  1. Mother of Joseph West and Samuel West.
  2. Has a step-daughter named Juliet West.
  3. She was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Award at the 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for her contributions to British Theatre.
  4. British classical stage actress trained at both the Old Vic Theatre School in London and the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York.
  5. Achieved her greatest success on TV as the nosy, shrewish wife "Sybil Fawlty" on the classic John Cleese comedy Fawlty Towers (1975).
  6. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama while her husband, Timothy West, was awarded his CBE in the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
  7. In October of 2003, she became seriously ill and was taken to the hospital for emergency heart operation (angioplasty).
  8. She played Queen Victoria in Looking for Victoria (2003). Her son Samuel West had previously played Prince Albert Victor Edward, Duke of Clarence, Queen Victoria's grandson, in both Edward the Seventh (1975) and The Ripper (1997) while her husband Timothy West played the eponymous role of Queen Victoria's eldest son and eventual successor in the former.
  9. Longtime friend of Fawlty Towers (1975) co-star, comedian John Cleese.
  10. Had a photographic memory.
  11. Daughter-in-law of Lockwood West.
  12. Fronted British TV advertising campaign for Tesco as a fussy mother alongside her long-suffering daughter played by TV comedienne and actress Jane Horrocks.
  13. In January 2013, she revealed that she had begun to suffer from short term memory loss and was unable to remember the years in which her sons were born or the year she married her husband, Timothy West. In March 2014, West announced that his wife was suffering from mild Alzheimer's disease, however, by August 2015, her condition had worsened to the point where she could no longer remember any details about their wedding or their married life together.
  14. Has two granddaughters, born in 2014 and 2017, via son Samuel West and his partner Laura Wade.
  15. There is a musical band named Prunella Scales.
  16. She was awarded the Freeman of the City of London in 1990.
  17. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Bradford in England in 1999.
  18. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia in 2000.
  19. Her stage name "Scales" was actually her mother's maiden name.
  20. Daughter of John (1895-1977), born in Hampshire, England, and Catherine (nΓ©e Scales) Illingworth (1901-1982), born in Yorkshire, England.

References & Fact Checks βœ…

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  • Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Timothy_West_in_2010.JPG
  • Original Source: Own work
  • Author: John Thaxter
  • Date taken: 15 February 2010
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  • Checked: βœ… Yes (2023-07-02 18:03:19)
  • Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_West_at_the_London_Film_Festival_screening_of_Hyde_Park_on_Hudson,_October_2012.jpg
  • Original Source: Samuel West
  • Author: Vince Maher, photographer
  • Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
  • Date taken: 12 October 2012

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