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| name = Connie Booth | image = Connie Booth.jpg | alt = A black and white image of Booth with what appears to be a veil on her head. | caption = | birth_name = Constance Booth | birth_date = 1941 or 1944 | birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = American | other_names = | occupation = Writer, actress, comedian, psychotherapist | years_active = 1969–1995 | spouse = {{marriage|John Cleese|1968|1978|reason=divorced}} {{marriage|John Lahr|2000}} | children = Cynthia Cleese }} Constance Booth (born 1941[1][2] or 1944)[3] is an American-born writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including her role as Polly Sherman on BBC2's Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese. For 30 years Booth declined to talk about Fawlty Towers until she agreed to participate in a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009.[3] Early lifeBooth's father was a Wall Street stock broker and her mother an actress. They moved to New York State after Connie's birth in Indianapolis, Indiana.[3][6] Booth entered acting and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress, meeting John Cleese while he was working in New York City.[6] She married Cleese on February 20, 1968.[4] Acting careerBooth 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. Booth and Cleese went on to write and co-star in Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979), in which she played waitress and chambermaid Polly. 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, for which she received critical acclaim. In 1994, she played a supporting role in "The Culex Experiment", an episode of the children's science fiction TV series The Tomorrow People. Psychotherapy careerBooth ended her acting career in 1995.[6] After studying for five years at London University,[3] she began a career as a psychotherapist, registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council.[5][6][6] Personal lifeIn 1971, Booth and Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia,[5] who appeared alongside her father in the films A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. Booth and Cleese divorced in 1978.[7] With Cleese, Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both series of Fawlty Towers, even though the two were actually divorced before the second series was finished and aired. Booth's daughter Cynthia married screenwriter Ed Solomon in 1995.[8][9] Booth married John Lahr, author and former senior drama critic of The New Yorker, in 2000. They live in north London.[10] Selected filmographyTelevision
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References1. ^Walker, John (2 June 2003). Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies: 3rd edition. London: HarperCollins, p.58. {{ISBN|0-00-715085-7}}. 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V7vPDQAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA1910&dq=connie+booth+1941+indianapolis&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqzeyO5uzaAhWCasAKHY5nCyIQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books}} 3. ^{{cite news|author=Parker, Robin|date=March 23, 2009|url=http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/03/gold_to_reopen_fawlty_towers.html|title=Gold to reopen Fawlty Towers|work=Broadcastnow|accessdate=March 23, 2009|deadurl=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326081807/http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/03/gold_to_reopen_fawlty_towers.html|archivedate=March 26, 2009|df=mdy-all}} 4. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.filmreference.com/film/20/John-Cleese.html | title = John Cleese Biography (1939–) | publisher= FilmReference.com | accessdate= November 21, 2013}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite web |url=http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/f231003_1.htm |title=Don’t mention the classic comedy series |last=Smith |first=Sean |website=Camden New Journal |location=London Borough of Camden |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040120230617/http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/f231003_1.htm |archive-date=January 20, 2004 |dead-url=yes}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://gold.uktv.co.uk/fawlty-towers/article/fawlty-towers-where-are-they-now/ |publisher=UKTV Gold |title=Fawlty Towers: Where are they now? |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6LJ3s4fVx?url=http://gold.uktv.co.uk/fawlty-towers/article/fawlty-towers-where-are-they-now/ |archivedate=November 21, 2013 |deadurl=no |df=mdy }} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Divorce for Cleese|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PwI-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=cUkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4335,1935462&dq=connie-booth+divorce&hl=en|accessdate=November 16, 2010|newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=September 9, 1978 | page = 5}} 8. ^{{cite web | last=Cate | first=Hans ten | title=NEWS 1997_02_12 - John Cleese Shoots Daughter Cynthia | website=Daily Llama | date=February 12, 1997 | url=http://www.dailyllama.com/news/1997/llama062.html | access-date=March 3, 2019}} 9. ^{{cite web | title=THE SOCIAL SCENE -- A Cleese Wedding Held Away From the `Fawlty' Line / British comedian's daughter marries in the Napa Valley | website=SFGate | date=September 18, 1995 | url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/THE-SOCIAL-SCENE-A-Cleese-Wedding-Held-Away-3024670.php | access-date=March 3, 2019}} 10. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|last=Milmo | first= Cahal | title = Life after Polly: Connie Booth (a case of Fawlty memory syndrome) | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/life-after-polly-connie-booth-a-case-of-fawlty-memory-syndrome-450289.html|work=The Independent|location=London|date=May 25, 2007|accessdate=September 8, 2011 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080502123852/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/life-after-polly-connie-booth-a-case-of-fawlty-memory-syndrome-450289.html | archivedate=May 2, 2008}} External links{{Commons category|Connie Booth}}
14 : 1940s births|Living people|Alumni of the Open University|American expatriates in the United Kingdom|American television actresses|American television writers|Actresses from Indianapolis|Actresses from New Rochelle, New York|Women television writers|American women comedians|People from London|Monty Python|American psychotherapists|Screenwriters from New York (state) |
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