
Connie Booth
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
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
Acting
(2023)
(2018)
(2017)
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
as Polly Sherman (archive footage)
(2009)
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Polly Sherman
(2005)
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
(2004)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
(2004)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
(1999)
(1999)
The Monty Python Story
as Self
(1993)
Leon the Pig Farmer
as Yvonne Chadwick
(1991)
American Friends
as Caroline Hartley
(1991)
Smack and Thistle
as Ms Kane
(1990)
The World of Eddie Weary
as Madge
(1988)
High Spirits
as Marge
(1988)
Hawks
as Nurse Javis
(1987)
84 Charing Cross Road
as The Lady from Delaware
(1987)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Violet Morstan
(1986)
Past Caring
as Linda
(1986)
Rocket to the Moon
as Belle Stark
(1984)
Nairobi Affair
as Mrs. Gardner
(1983)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Laura Lyons
(1982)
The Deadly Game
as Helen Trapp
(1982)
The Story of Ruth
as Ruth Baker
(1980)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Mrs. Errol
(1980)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Sylva Bassington-ffrench
(1977)
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
as Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
(1977)
Spaghetti Two-Step
as Sheila
(1977)
The Mermaid Frolics
as Various
(1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
as The Witch
(1975)
84 Charing Cross Road
as Ginny
(1975)
The After Dinner Game
as Lee-Ann Good
(1974)
Romance with a Double Bass
as Princess Costanza
(1973)
Is This a Record?
as Various
(1971)
And Now for Something Completely Different
as Best Girl
(1969)
How to Irritate People
as Various
Crew
(1978)
Snavely
Creator
(1974)
Romance with a Double Bass
Adaptation