Connie Booth

Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940) (There is speculation about Booth's birth year.) Sources have also indicated 1939, and 1944. Booth entered acting and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress. She met John Cleese while he was working in New York City;

Acting career Booth appeared in How to Irritate People (1968), a pre–Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Python members; she went on to secure 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 starred in a German episode of Monty Python, playing the princess, and appeared in a short film entitled 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 art student 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 many other 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 ten productions from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, including starring with John Mills in the 1983–1984 West End production of Little Lies at Wyndham's Theatre.

Psychotherapy career Booth ended her acting career in 1995.

Personal life In 1971, Booth and Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia. before the second series of Fawlty Towers was finished and aired.

Booth married John Lahr, author and former New Yorker senior drama critic, in 2000.

Selected filmography and theatrical appearances Television

Film

Theatre Year Play Role Theatre 1973–1974 Design for Living Helen Carver Phoenix Theatre, London 1977 The Glass Menagerie Cambridge Arts Theatre 1982–1983 Little Lies Agatha Posket Wyndham's Theatre 1984 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Royal Exchange Theatre 1985–1986 Edmond Royal Court Theatre 1986 The Women Mary National Theatre Studio, Royal National Theatre 1988 An Enemy of the People Katrine Stockmann Young Vic 1990–1991 The Manchurian Candidate Eugenie Cheyney New Vic Theatre 1991–1992 It's Ralph Comedy Theatre 1992–1993 Under the Stars Greenwich Theatre