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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.
85
Years Old
39
Movies
15
TV Shows
8.2
Avg Rating
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.
1981
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
Gender
Female
Birthday
December 2, 1940
Birthplace
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
High Spirits
1988
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983
Hawks
1988
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
How to Irritate People
1969
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
The Deadly Game
1982
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
Nairobi Affair
1984
American Friends
1991
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
The World of Eddie Weary
1990
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Play for Today
1970
Play for Today
1970
Bergerac
1981
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
Fawlty Towers
1975
American Playhouse
1982
Worzel Gummidge
1979
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
The Buccaneers
1995
Dickens of London
1976
Worlds Beyond
1986
A Life on Screen
2014
For the Greater Good
1991
Faith
1994