Background
Booth"s father was a Wall Street stock broker and her mother was an actress who had moved to the state of New York after Connie Booth"s birth in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Booth"s father was a Wall Street stock broker and her mother was an actress who had moved to the state of New York after Connie Booth"s birth in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Open University.
Booth entered acting and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress, meeting John Cleese while he was working in New York City. Booth secured parts in episodes of Monty Python"s Flying Circus (1969–1974) 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 (1965), 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 lieutenant (1977), Cleese"s Sherlock Holmes spoof, as Mistress Hudson. Booth and Cleese went on to write and co-star in Fawlty Towers (1975, 1979), in which she played waitress and chambermaid Polly, perhaps her most memorable role.
Booth played various roles on British television, including Sophie in Dickens of London (1976), Mrs Errol in a British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980), and Mission 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 television series The Tomorrow People.
Booth ended her acting career in 1995. After studying for five years at London University, she began a career as a London psychotherapist, registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council. Foreign 30 years Booth had declined to talk about Fawlty Towers until she agreed to participate in a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009.
Personal life In 1971, Booth and Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia, who appeared alongside her father in the films A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures.
Booth married John Lahr, author and former senior drama critic of The New Yorker, in 2000. They live in north London.