Connie Booth

At 80 years old, Connie Booth has this physical status:

Connie Booth (born 1939/40, 1941, or 1944) is an American-born writer, actress, comedian, and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom.

She has appeared in many British television shows and films, including her appearance on BBC2's Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese. Before she agreed to work on a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009, Booth refused to talk about Fawlty Towers for 30 years.

Early life

On December 2, 1940, Booth was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her father was a Wall Street stockbroker and her mother was an actress. The family later moved to New York State. Booth performed as an understudy and waitress on Broadway. She met John Cleese while he was in New York City; they married on February 20, 1968.

Personal life

Cynthia Booth and Cleese's daughter appeared alongside her father in the films A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures in 1971. In 1978, Booth and Cleese divorced. Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both Fawlty Towers, but the two were actually divorced before the second series was finished and broadcast. Cynthia Booth married screenwriter Ed Solomon in 1995.

In 2000, Booth married John Lahr, a writer and former New Yorker senior drama critic. They live in north London.

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Acting career

Booth landed roles in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) and in the Python films And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) and Monty Python's The Holy Grail (1975) as a woman accused of being a witch). She appeared in How to Irritate People (1968), a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other potential Monty Python actors; and The Strange Case of Civilization (1974), Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof (1977) as Mrs. Hudson.

Booth and Cleese co-wrote and co-starred in Fawlty Towers (1975 to 1979), in which she appeared as waitress and chambermaid Polly. Before she agreed to work on a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009, Booth refused to talk about it for thirty years.

In a dramatization of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers (1995), Booth appeared in various roles on British television, including Sophie in Dickens of London (1976), Mr. Errol in a BBC adaptation of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) and Miss March (1995). She appeared in The Story of Ruth (1981), in which she appeared as the schizophrenic daughter of an abusive father for whom she received critical acclaim. In 1994, she appeared in "The Culex Experiment," an episode of the children's science fiction television series "The Tomorrow People."

Booth also performed in ten productions from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, most in the London Theatre, including appearing with Sir John Mills in the 1983-1984 West End production of Little Lies at Wyndham's Theatre.

Psychotherapy career

Booth began acting in 1995. She began working as a psychotherapist after studying at London University for five years, and was formally affiliated with the British Psychoanalytic Council.

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