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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 2, 1940
Place of Birth
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
- Конни Бут
- Constance "Connie" Booth Bollinger
- Constance Booth Bollinger
Connie Booth
1.6 Popularity
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
Known For
0.0
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
9.0
Self
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
2023
7.0
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018
6.2
Polly Sherman (archive footage)
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
2017
8.0
Self
A Life on Screen
2014
8.0
Self / Polly Sherman
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
5.0
Herself
Fawlty Towers Revisited
2005
4.8
Self
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
9.0
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
2004
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
2004
Credits
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2025
0.0
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
as Self
2023
9.0
Michael Palin: A Life on Screen
2018
7.0
A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
as Polly Sherman (archive footage)
2017
6.2
A Life on Screen
as Self
2014
8.0
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Polly Sherman
2009
8.0
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Herself
2005
5.0
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
2004
4.8
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
2004
9.0
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
as Self (archive footage)
2004
0.0
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
as Self (archive footage)
2004
9.0
The Monty Python Story
as Self
1999
0.0
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
as Self
1999
0.0
The Buccaneers
as Jackie March
1995
5.7
Faith
as Pat Harbinson
1994
10.0
Leon the Pig Farmer
as Yvonne Chadwick
1993
5.3
Smack and Thistle
as Ms Kane
1991
0.0
American Friends
as Caroline Hartley
1991
6.2
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The World of Eddie Weary
as Madge
1990
0.0
High Spirits
as Marge
1988
5.8
Hawks
as Nurse Javis
1988
5.7
84 Charing Cross Road
as The Lady from Delaware
1987
7.2
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Violet Morstan
1987
5.4
Past Caring
as Linda
1986
0.0
Rocket to the Moon
as Belle Stark
1986
0.0
Nairobi Affair
as Mrs. Gardner
1984
4.8
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Laura Lyons
1983
6.6
The Deadly Game
as Helen Trapp
1982
7.2
The Story of Ruth
as Ruth Baker
1982
2.0
American Playhouse
as Belle Stark
1982
6.2
Bergerac
as Monica McLeod
1981
6.7
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Mrs. Errol
1980
7.4
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Sylva Bassington-ffrench
1980
6.6
Worzel Gummidge
as Aunt Sally II
1979
6.2
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
as Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty
1977
6.2
The Mermaid Frolics
as Various
1977
5.3
Spaghetti Two-Step
as Sheila
1977
0.0
Dickens of London
as Sophie
1976
6.5
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
5.0
84 Charing Cross Road
as Ginny
1975
0.0
Fawlty Towers
as Polly Sherman
1975
8.3
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
as The Witch
1975
7.8
The After Dinner Game
as Lee-Ann Good
1975
6.0
Romance with a Double Bass
as Princess Costanza
1974
5.7
Is This a Record?
as Various
1973
6.0
And Now for Something Completely Different
as Best Girl
1971
7.2
Play for Today
as Lee-Ann Good
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Ginny
1970
6.3
Monty Python's Flying Circus
as Various
1969
8.2
Monty Python's Flying Circus
as Second Juror
1969
8.2
How to Irritate People
as Various
1969
6.6