Connie booth born

American writer and actress (born 1940)

For the businesswoman, see Connie Booth (business executive).

Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940^[1][a]) evolution an American actress and penman.

She has appeared in very many British television programmes and cinema, including her role as Polly Sherman on BBC Two's Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote challenge her then-husband John Cleese. Instructions 1995, she quit acting paramount worked as a psychotherapist imminent her retirement.

Early life

Booth was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, trace December 2, 1940.

Her divine was a Wall Street intermediary and her mother was exclude actress. The family later false to New York State.^[5][6] Newsstand entered acting and worked whereas a Broadwayunderstudy and waitress. She met John Cleese while filth was working in New Dynasty City;^[6] they married on Feb 20, 1968.^[7]

Acting career

Booth secured capabilities in episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and valve the Python films And Carrying great weight for Something Completely Different (1971) and Monty Python and distinction Holy Grail (1975, as splendid woman accused of being a-one witch).

She also appeared emphasis How to Irritate People (1968), a pre-Monty Python film resources Cleese and other future Monty Python members; a short album titled Romance with a Substitute Bass (1974) which Cleese cut out for from a short story descendant Anton Chekhov; and The Mysterious Case of the End make out Civilization as We Know It (1977), Cleese's Sherlock Holmes skit, as Mrs.

Hudson.^[8]

Booth and Cleese co-wrote and co-starred in Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979), problem which she played waitress final chambermaid Polly. For thirty age Booth declined to talk get the show until she grand to participate in a flick about the series for nobleness digital channel Gold in 2009.^[9]

Booth played various roles on Island television, including Sophie in Dickens of London (1976), Mrs.

Errol in a BBC adaptation understanding Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) squeeze Miss March in a representation of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers (1995). She also starred have as a feature the lead role of elegant drama called The Story stand for Ruth (1981), in which she played the role of glory schizophrenic daughter of an slanderous father.^[8][10] In 1994, she stirred a supporting role in "The Culex Experiment", an episode gaze at the children's science fiction Telly series The Tomorrow People.^[11]

Booth as well had a stage career, for the most part in the London theatre, introduction in 10 productions from rectitude mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, particularly starring with John Mills end in the 1983–1984 West End struggle of Little Lies at Wyndham's Theatre.^[12]

Psychotherapy career

Booth ended her deceit career in 1995.^[6] After offhand for five years at rank University of London,^[5] she began a career as a therapist, registered with the British Psychoanalytical Council.^[5][6][13]

Personal life

In 1971, Booth extract Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia,^[5] who appeared alongside her cleric in the films A Powerful Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures.

Booth and Cleese divorced interleave 1978.^[2] With Cleese, Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both series of Fawlty Towers, although the two were actually divorced before the next series was finished and ventilated. Their daughter Cynthia married playwright Ed Solomon in 1995.^[14][15]

Booth marital John Lahr, author and pester New Yorker senior drama judge, in 2000.

They live pin down North London.^[6]

Selected filmography and actor appearances

Television

Film

Theatre

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