Background
Booth was born in Chester, Cheshire in 1976 but grew up in Hastings, East Sussex.
Booth was born in Chester, Cheshire in 1976 but grew up in Hastings, East Sussex.
Booth studied for 3 A levels and a Bachelor in media and film degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Her paternal great-grandfather built one of the first cinemas in the United Kingdom in Cornwall. lieutenant is now a garage, but still has a plaque on the wall marking its significance. While she was a student she earned money busking in the street playing the violin and sang on Eurotrash.
She once worked in Puerto Rico for the London-based Salvation.
She used to be an avid animal rights campaigner and has some rats as pets. Booth is known for her roles in such cult films as Pervirella, Cradle of Fear, Evil Aliens and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominated short film Inferno.
She also appeared in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez"s double header Grindhouse (2007) and in the mock trailer "Don"t", by Edgar Wright (director of Shaun of the Dead). Booth was also the host of several Channel 4 and satellite television shows.
She co-presented and co-wrote video game review show Bits for two years.
She was a segment presenter on Channel 4 flagship morning show The Big Breakfast, and also presented on the gameshow Banzai for E4. Other shows she worked on include L!VE television"s Blue Review, paintball challenge show Mission: Paintball, Threesome and Demolition. Booth has presented several television programmes related to cult films, including OUT There on five and Shock Movie Massacre on Bravo.
Emily is a presenter on Eat Cinema, interviewing A-list Hollywood stars on The Buzz and hosting her own show First Night Bites.
She also hosted the now defunct Quiz Night Live, a premium rate call-in quiz show, shown on satellite/Freeview channel Ftn. She presents The Match on the XLeague.tvchannel.
In 2007 she joined Zone Horror where she works as a presenter and continuity announcer. She was among the guests at the 2009 Festival of Fantastic in Manchester and announced the results of the Delta Film Award.
She also hosted GoreZone Magazine"s Weekend of Horror and is the official poster girl for the magazine.
GoreZone Magazine will launch a Digital Video Disc cover mount starring Emily Booth each month from December 2009. Emily is a supporter of the Classic Horror Campaign along with other horror actors and celebrities which is campaigning to bring back BBC2"s Saturday night horror double bill seasons, popular on British television in the 1970s, "80s and "90s. Since 2007 Emily has been the face of the Horror Channel.
She also hosts a monthly highlights show titled "Horror Bites." She also co-hosted the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival in Brighton in August 2012.