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.
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 (Movies)
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
Character:
Release Date:31/05/2025
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
Character:Self
Release Date:06/05/2023
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
Character:
Release Date:07/01/2018
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
Character:Polly Sherman (archive footage)
Release Date:16/06/2017
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Character:Self / Polly Sherman
Release Date:10/05/2009
Fawlty Towers Revisited
Character:Herself
Release Date:01/12/2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Character:Self
Release Date:09/12/2004
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2004
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2004
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2004
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Character:Self
Release Date:08/10/1999
The Monty Python Story
Character:Self
Release Date:08/10/1999
Leon the Pig Farmer
Character:Yvonne Chadwick
Release Date:26/02/1993
Smack and Thistle
Character:Ms Kane
Release Date:20/04/1991
American Friends
Character:Caroline Hartley
Release Date:22/03/1991
The World of Eddie Weary
Character:Madge
Release Date:01/01/1990
High Spirits
Character:Marge
Release Date:18/11/1988
Hawks
Character:Nurse Javis
Release Date:05/08/1988
84 Charing Cross Road
Character:The Lady from Delaware
Release Date:13/02/1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Character:Violet Morstan
Release Date:10/01/1987
Past Caring
Character:Linda
Release Date:02/11/1986
Rocket to the Moon
Character:Belle Stark
Release Date:05/05/1986
Nairobi Affair
Character:Mrs. Gardner
Release Date:01/01/1984
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character:Laura Lyons
Release Date:03/11/1983
The Deadly Game
Character:Helen Trapp
Release Date:22/07/1982
The Story of Ruth
Character:Ruth Baker
Release Date:26/04/1982
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character:Mrs. Errol
Release Date:01/12/1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Character:Sylva Bassington-ffrench
Release Date:30/03/1980
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Character:Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
Release Date:18/09/1977
The Mermaid Frolics
Character:Various
Release Date:10/09/1977
Spaghetti Two-Step
Character:Sheila
Release Date:27/02/1977
84 Charing Cross Road
Character:Ginny
Release Date:04/11/1975
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Character:The Witch
Release Date:03/04/1975
The After Dinner Game
Character:Lee-Ann Good
Release Date:16/01/1975
Romance with a Double Bass
Character:Princess Costanza
Release Date:01/01/1974
Is This a Record?
Character:Various
Release Date:01/06/1973
And Now for Something Completely Different
Character:Best Girl
Release Date:28/09/1971
How to Irritate People
Character:Various
Release Date:21/01/1969
Television Appearances
A Life on Screen
Character:Self
The Buccaneers
Character:Jackie March
Faith
Character:Pat Harbinson
American Playhouse
Character:Belle Stark
Bergerac
Character:Monica McLeod
Worzel Gummidge
Character:Aunt Sally II
Dickens of London
Character:Sophie
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Character:Self
Fawlty Towers
Character:Polly Sherman
Play for Today
Character:Lee-Ann Good
Play for Today
Character:Ginny
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Character:Various
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Character:Second Juror
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