
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
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Rocket to the Moon
1986 · Movie
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Faith
1994 · Series
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Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
2023 · Movie
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
2004 · Movie
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
2004 · Movie
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For the Greater Good
1991 · Series
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009 · Movie
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A Life on Screen
2014 · Series
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Fawlty Towers
1975 · Series
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 · Series
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · Movie
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The After Dinner Game
1975 · Movie
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Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018 · Movie
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980 · Movie
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Dickens of London
1976 · Series
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84 Charing Cross Road
1987 · Movie
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The Deadly Game
1982 · Movie
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And Now for Something Completely Different
1971 · Movie
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Smack and Thistle
1991 · Movie
The World of Eddie Weary
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The World of Eddie Weary
1990 · Movie
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84 Charing Cross Road
1975 · Movie
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ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Series
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · Movie
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980 · Movie
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Bergerac
1981 · Series
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American Playhouse
1982 · Series
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A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
2017 · Movie
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983 · Movie
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How to Irritate People
1969 · Movie
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American Friends
1991 · Movie
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Play for Today
1970 · Series
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977 · Movie
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Worzel Gummidge
1979 · Series
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987 · Movie
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The Story of Ruth
1982 · Movie
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The Buccaneers
1995 · Series
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Is This a Record?
1973 · Movie
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High Spirits
1988 · Movie
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Worlds Beyond
1986 · Series
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Romance with a Double Bass
1974 · Movie
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Hawks
1988 · Movie
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Nairobi Affair
1984 · Movie
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Leon the Pig Farmer
1993 · Movie
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The Mermaid Frolics
1977 · Movie
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Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005 · Movie
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Movie
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · Series

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The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025 · Movie