Prunella Scales, the actress best known for her role as the sharp-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the fan favorite British sitcom Fawlty Towers, has passed away.

Scaled died “peacefully at home in London yesterday”, her sons, Samuel and Joseph, said, per the BBC. She was 93 years old and had been living with dementia since 2013.

“Although dementia forced her retirement from a remarkable acting career of nearly 70 years, she continued to live at home,” her sons added. “She was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.”

Scales is beloved by TV fans for her role as Sybil Fawlty, the assertive and long-suffering hotel manager and wife of Basil, played by John Cleese, in the classic sitcom.

Cleese also paid tribute to Scaled, calling her “a really wonderful comic actress”. The Monty Python le

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