Connie Booth
Known for Acting · 56 credits
- Born
- 1940-12-02 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- Конни Бут · Constance "Connie" Booth Bollinger · Constance Booth Bollinger
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.
Known For
TV Shows (16)
Play for Today
1970
as Lee-Ann Good / Ginny
American Playhouse
1982
as Belle Stark
Bergerac
1981
as Monica McLeod
Film '72
1971
as Self
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
as Various / Second Juror
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Libby
Fawlty Towers
1975
as Polly Sherman
Worlds Beyond
1986
as Betty Hewart
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
as Self
Worzel Gummidge
1979
as Aunt Sally II
The Buccaneers
1995
as Jackie March
Dickens of London
1976
as Sophie
A Life on Screen
2014
as Self
For the Greater Good
1991
as Naomi Balliol
Faith
1994
as Pat Harbinson
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
1972
as Various Characters
Movies (40)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
as The Witch
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as The Lady from Delaware
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
as Mrs. Errol
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980
as Sylva Bassington-ffrench
High Spirits
1988
as Marge
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
as Polly Sherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971
as Best Girl
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
as Self / Polly Sherman
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983
as Laura Lyons
How to Irritate People
1969
as Various
The Mermaid Frolics
1977
as Various
American Friends
1991
as Caroline Hartley
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
as Herself
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
as Yvonne Chadwick
The Deadly Game
1982
as Helen Trapp
Rocket to the Moon
1986
as Belle Stark
84 Charing Cross Road
1975
as Ginny
The Monty Python Story
1999
as Self
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
as Princess Costanza
Nairobi Affair
1984
as Mrs. Gardner
Past Caring
1986
as Linda
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Violet Morstan
The Story of Ruth
1982
as Ruth Baker
Thank You, Comrades
1978
as Annie
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
Hawks
1988
as Nurse Javis
Smack and Thistle
1991
as Ms Kane
The World of Eddie Weary
1990
as Madge
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
1999
as Self
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self
Is This a Record?
1973
as Various
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The After Dinner Game
1975
as Lee-Ann Good
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
2017
as Polly Sherman (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Spaghetti Two-Step
1977
as Sheila
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
2023
as Self
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018
About Connie Booth
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 ent… With 56 credits spanning from 1969 to 2025, Connie Booth has appeared in 40 films and 16 TV shows.
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Most Popular Connie Booth Movies
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) — as The Witch
- 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) — as The Lady from Delaware
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) — as Mrs. Errol
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980) — as Sylva Bassington-ffrench
- High Spirits (1988) — as Marge
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