Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty
Towers. She is played by Prunella Scales. She is listed as 34 years
old as seen on her medical chart in the 1975 episode "The Germans",
presumably indicating she was born in 1941. Scales was 43 years old
when Fawlty Towers began production.She is Basil Fawlty's wife, and
the only regular character in the series who usually refers to him by
his first name (Major Gowen addresses Basil by his first name in
"Communication Problems"). Sybil is a far more effective worker and
manager than Basil; she handles crises calmly, picks up the pieces
after a nasty confrontation and stays polite to guests. Unlike Basil,
who yearns to turn Fawlty Towers into "an establishment of class",
catering exclusively to the highborn members of society, Sybil is more
realistic and down-to-earth when it comes to clientele, and all that
concerns her is the hotel making money rather than the class of guest
who stays there. Despite her effectiveness as a worker, she is known
to be extremely lazy; during busy check-in sessions or meal-times,
while everyone else is busy working around her, she's frequently seen
talking on the phone to one of her friends (usually 'Audrey', who
makes an appearance in "The Anniversary"), smoking, chatting with
customers, or reading Harold Robbins' novels. In "The Kipper and the
Corpse", she does little to help Basil, Manuel and Polly with the
disposal of Mr. Leeman's body, prompting Basil to direct all the
complaints to her. He does the same trick in "Waldorf Salad". Basil is
utterly terrified of Sybil, describing her to Irish builder O'Reilly
in "The Builders" as having the ability to "kill a man at ten paces
with one blow of her tongue."Sybil is the strong figure in the
marriage, as Basil is completely incapable of handling even the
simplest of tasks. In "The Germans" Sybil is in hospital for less than
a whole morning, and in that short period, Basil succeeds in
infuriating the guests with an argument over the specific time of a
fire drill, setting off a burglar alarm, getting jammed underneath a
desk, and the hotel quickly catches fire. Sybil Fawlty Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter