Connie Booth
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| Born |
Constance Booth 1944 (age 72–73) Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Psychotherapist, actress, comedian, writer |
| Spouse(s) |
John Cleese (1968–1978) (divorced) John Lahr (2000–present) |
| Children | Cynthia Cleese |
Constance "Connie" Booth (born 1944) is an American-born writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in England. She is 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.
Booth's father was a Wall Street stock broker and her mother was an actress. They moved to New York state after Connie Booth's birth in Indianapolis, Indiana. Booth entered acting and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress, meeting John Cleese while he was working in New York City. She married Cleese in New York 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) adapted by Cleese 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.
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