1940-12-02 ( 84 years old ) in 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 Theatre
Movies
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
2023-05-06
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018-01-07
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
2017-06-16
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009-05-10
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005-12-01
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004-12-09
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
1999-10-08
The Monty Python Story
1999-10-08
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993-02-26
Smack and Thistle
1991-04-20
American Friends
1991-03-22
The World of Eddie Weary
1990-01-01
High Spirits
1988-11-18
Hawks
1988-08-05
84 Charing Cross Road
1987-02-13
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987-01-10
Past Caring
1986-11-02
Rocket to the Moon
1986-05-05
Nairobi Affair
1984-01-01
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983-11-03
The Deadly Game
1982-07-22
The Story of Ruth
1982-04-26
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980-12-01
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980-03-30
The Mermaid Frolics
1977-09-10
Spaghetti Two-Step
1977-02-27
84 Charing Cross Road
1975-11-04
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975-04-03
The After Dinner Game
1975-01-16
Romance with a Double Bass
1974-01-01
Is This a Record?
1973-06-01
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971-09-28
How to Irritate People
1969-01-21
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