Connie Booth

Known for ActingBorn 1940-12-02 (age 85)Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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 TheatreRead more

Movies & web series

Rocket to the Moon

Faith

Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1

The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2

For the Greater Good

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

A Life on Screen

Fawlty Towers Revisited

Fawlty Towers

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

The After Dinner Game

Michael Palin: A Life on Screen

Fawlty Towers: The Play

Little Lord Fauntleroy

84 Charing Cross Road

Dickens of London

The Deadly Game

And Now for Something Completely Different

Smack and Thistle

The World of Eddie Weary

Bergerac

84 Charing Cross Road

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

American Playhouse

A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Play for Today

How to Irritate People

American Friends

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

Worzel Gummidge

The Buccaneers

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Romance with a Double Bass

The Story of Ruth

Is This a Record?

Hawks

High Spirits

Worlds Beyond

Nairobi Affair

Leon the Pig Farmer

The Mermaid Frolics

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?