Connie Booth

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

51

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-12-02 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Connie Booth

Biography

Constance "Connie" Booth (born 2 December 1940) is an American writer and actress, known for appearances on British television and particularly for her portrayal of Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s television show Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then husband John Cleese. In 1995, she quit acting and worked as a psychotherapist until her retirement. Booth was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 2, 1940. Her father was a Wall Street stockbroker and her mother was an actress. The family later moved to New York State. Booth entered acting and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress. She met John Cleese while he was working in New York City; they married on February 20, 1968. Booth secured parts in episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and in the Python films And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, as a woman accused of being a witch). She also appeared in How to Irritate People (1968), a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members; a short film titled Romance with a Double Bass (1974) which Cleese adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov; and The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977), Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof, as Mrs. Hudson Booth and Cleese co-wrote and co-starred in Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979), in which she played waitress and chambermaid Polly. For thirty years Booth declined to talk about the show until she agreed to participate in a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009. Booth played various roles on British television, including Sophie in Dickens of London (1976), Mrs. Errol in a BBC adaptation of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) and Miss March in a dramatisation of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers (1995). She also starred in the lead role of a drama called The Story of Ruth (1981), in which she played the role of the schizophrenic daughter of an abusive father. In 1994, she played a supporting role in "The Culex Experiment", an episode of the children's science fiction TV series The Tomorrow People. Booth also had a stage career, primarily in the London theatre, appearing in 10 productions from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, notably starring with John Mills in the 1983–1984 West End production of Little Lies at Wyndham's Theatre

Known For

  • Play for Today

    Play for Today

  • Play for Today

    Play for Today

  • Bergerac

    Bergerac

  • American Playhouse

    American Playhouse

  • Monty Python's Flying Circus

    Monty Python's Flying Circus

  • Monty Python's Flying Circus

    Monty Python's Flying Circus

  • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

    The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

  • Fawlty Towers

    Fawlty Towers

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

  • 84 Charing Cross Road

    84 Charing Cross Road

  • High Spirits

    High Spirits

  • The Deadly Game

    The Deadly Game

  • The Buccaneers

    The Buccaneers

  • Worzel Gummidge

    Worzel Gummidge

  • The Secret Policeman's Ball

    The Secret Policeman's Ball

  • Dickens of London

    Dickens of London

  • 84 Charing Cross Road

    84 Charing Cross Road

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

  • Romance with a Double Bass

    Romance with a Double Bass

  • Hawks

    Hawks

  • American Friends

    American Friends

  • A Life on Screen

    A Life on Screen

  • The Story of Ruth

    The Story of Ruth

  • Leon the Pig Farmer

    Leon the Pig Farmer

  • Michael Palin: A Life on Screen

    Michael Palin: A Life on Screen

  • Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

    Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

  • Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

    Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

  • And Now for Something Completely Different

    And Now for Something Completely Different

  • The Mermaid Frolics

    The Mermaid Frolics

  • Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

    Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

  • Is This a Record?

    Is This a Record?

  • Spaghetti Two-Step

    Spaghetti Two-Step

  • Past Caring

    Past Caring

  • The After Dinner Game

    The After Dinner Game

  • Faith

    Faith

  • Nairobi Affair

    Nairobi Affair

  • The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers

    The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers

  • Rocket to the Moon

    Rocket to the Moon

  • How to Irritate People

    How to Irritate People

  • Fawlty Towers Revisited

    Fawlty Towers Revisited

  • The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1

    The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1

  • Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs

    Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs

  • The Monty Python Story

    The Monty Python Story

  • The World of Eddie Weary

    The World of Eddie Weary

  • Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm

    Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm

  • Smack and Thistle

    Smack and Thistle

  • A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey

    A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey

  • The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2

    The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2

  • The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3

    The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3