Connie Booth
Biografia
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
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Film • 2025
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
Film • 2023
jako Self
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
Film • 2018
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
Film • 2017
jako Polly Sherman (archive footage)
A Life on Screen
Serial • 2014
jako Self
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Film • 2009
jako Self / Polly Sherman
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Film • 2005
jako Herself
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Film • 2005
jako Polly Sherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Film • 2004
jako Self
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
Film • 2004
jako Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Film • 2004
jako Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
Film • 2004
jako Self (archive footage)
The Monty Python Story
Film • 1999
jako Self
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Film • 1999
jako Self
The Buccaneers
Serial • 1995
jako Jackie March
Faith
Serial • 1994
jako Pat Harbinson
Leon the Pig Farmer
Film • 1993
jako Yvonne Chadwick
Smack and Thistle
Film • 1991
jako Ms Kane
American Friends
Film • 1991
jako Caroline Hartley
For the Greater Good
Serial • 1991
jako Naomi Balliol
The World of Eddie Weary
Film • 1990
jako Madge
Zjawy
Film • 1988
jako Marge
Jastrzębie
Film • 1988
jako Nurse Javis
Charing Cross 84
Film • 1987
jako The Lady from Delaware
Powrót Sherlocka Holmesa
Film • 1987
jako Violet Morstan
Past Caring
Film • 1986
jako Linda
Worlds Beyond
Serial • 1986
jako Betty Hewart
Rocket to the Moon
Film • 1986
jako Belle Stark
Nairobi Affair
Film • 1984
jako Mrs. Gardner
Pies Baskerville'ów
Film • 1983
jako Laura Lyons
The Deadly Game
Film • 1982
jako Helen Trapp
The Story of Ruth
Film • 1982
jako Ruth Baker
American Playhouse
Serial • 1982
jako Belle Stark
Bergerac
Serial • 1981
jako Monica McLeod
Mały Lord Fauntleroy
Film • 1980
jako Mrs. Errol
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Film • 1980
jako Sylva Bassington-ffrench
Worzel Gummidge
Serial • 1979
jako Aunt Sally II
Thank You, Comrades
Film • 1978
jako Annie
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Film • 1977
jako Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
The Mermaid Frolics
Film • 1977
jako Various
Spaghetti Two-Step
Film • 1977
jako Sheila
Dickens of London
Serial • 1976
jako Sophie
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Serial • 1976
jako Self
84 Charing Cross Road
Film • 1975
jako Ginny
Hotel Zacisze
Serial • 1975
jako Polly Sherman
Monty Python i Święty Graal
Film • 1975
jako The Witch
The After Dinner Game
Film • 1975
jako Lee-Ann Good
Romance with a Double Bass
Film • 1974
jako Princess Costanza
Is This a Record?
Film • 1973
jako Various
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
Serial • 1972
jako Various Characters
Film '72
Serial • 1971
jako Self
A teraz coś z zupełnie innej beczki
Film • 1971
jako Best Girl
Play for Today
Serial • 1970
jako Lee-Ann Good
Latający cyrk Monty Pythona
Serial • 1969
jako Various
Jak wkurzać ludzi
Film • 1969
jako Various
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Serial • 1969
jako Libby