Connie Booth
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 2, 1940 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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
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Filmography
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Movie
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
Movie · as Self
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
Movie
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
Movie · as Polly Sherman (archive footage)
A Life on Screen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Movie · as Self / Polly Sherman
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Movie · as Herself
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie · as Polly Sherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Movie · as Self
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Monty Python Story
Movie · as Self
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Movie · as Self
The Buccaneers
TV · as Jackie March · 2 eps
Faith
TV · as Pat Harbinson · 2 eps
Leon the Pig Farmer
Movie · as Yvonne Chadwick
American Friends
Movie · as Caroline Hartley
Smack and Thistle
Movie · as Ms Kane
For the Greater Good
TV · as Naomi Balliol · 1 ep
The World of Eddie Weary
Movie · as Madge
Hawks
Movie · as Nurse Javis
High Spirits
Movie · as Marge
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie · as Violet Morstan
84 Charing Cross Road
Movie · as The Lady from Delaware
Floodtide
TV · as Isabel · 5 eps
Rocket to the Moon
Movie · as Belle Stark
Past Caring
Movie · as Linda
Worlds Beyond
TV · as Betty Hewart · 1 ep
Nairobi Affair
Movie · as Mrs. Gardner
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Movie · as Laura Lyons
The Deadly Game
Movie · as Helen Trapp
The Story of Ruth
Movie · as Ruth Baker
American Playhouse
TV · as Belle Stark · 1 ep
Bergerac
TV · as Monica McLeod · 1 ep
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Movie · as Mrs. Errol
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Movie · as Sylva Bassington-ffrench
Worzel Gummidge
TV · as Aunt Sally II · 1 ep
Thank You, Comrades
Movie · as Annie
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Movie · as Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
Spaghetti Two-Step
Movie · as Sheila
The Mermaid Frolics
Movie · as Various
The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV · as Self · 15 eps
Dickens of London
TV · as Sophie · 1 ep
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Movie · as The Witch
The After Dinner Game
Movie · as Lee-Ann Good
84 Charing Cross Road
Movie · as Ginny
Fawlty Towers
TV · as Polly Sherman · 12 eps
Romance with a Double Bass
Movie · as Princess Costanza
Is This a Record?
Movie · as Various
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
TV · as Various Characters · 2 eps
And Now for Something Completely Different
Movie · as Best Girl
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Play for Today
TV · as Lee-Ann Good, Ginny · 1 ep
How to Irritate People
Movie · as Various
Monty Python's Flying Circus
TV · as Various, Second Juror · 3 eps
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · as Libby · 1 ep