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Aliases: Конни Бут , Constance "Connie" Booth Bollinger , Constance Booth Bollinger

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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Movie Involvements: 19

TV Involvements: 6


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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. 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

Most Famous Work

Bergerac
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6

Bergerac

(1981) Monica McLeod
The Buccaneers
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6

The Buccaneers

(1995) Jackie March
A Life on Screen
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8

A Life on Screen

(2014) Herself
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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7

Little Lord Fauntleroy

(1980) Mrs. Errol
84 Charing Cross Road
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7

84 Charing Cross Road

(1987) The Lady from Delaware
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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7
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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6

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

(1980) Sylva Bassington-ffrench
Faith
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10

Faith

(1994) Pat Harbinson

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2018 N/A
2017 Polly Sherman (archive footage)
2014 Herself
2009 Polly Sherman / herself
2005 Herself
2004 Self
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
1999 Self
Self
1995 Jackie March
1994 Pat Harbinson
1993 Yvonne Chadwick
1991 Ms Kane
Caroline Hartley
1990 Madge
1988 Marge
Nurse Javis
1987 The Lady from Delaware
Violet Morstan
1986 Linda
Belle Stark
1984 Mrs. Gardner
1983 Laura Lyons
1982 Helen Trapp
Belle Stark
1981 Monica McLeod
1980 Mrs. Errol
Sylva Bassington-ffrench
1977 Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
Various
Sheila
1976 Self
1975 Ginny
Polly Sherman
Herself / Polly Sherman
The Witch
Lee-Ann Good
1974 Princess Costanza
1973 Various
1971 Best Girl
1970 N/A
1969 Various
Various
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Crew

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1978 Creator
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Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1975 Writer
1974 Adaptation
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Creator

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1975 Creator
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