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Thanks to Cleese, Booth played six different roles in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and had roles in the films ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. After this in 1975, the two co-wrote ''Fawlty Towers''. Booth played [[OnlySaneEmployee Polly Sherman]], a sarcastic waitress and art student who was constantly exasperated by the actions of her boss, Cleese's Basil Fawlty.
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Thanks to Cleese, Booth played six different roles in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and had roles in the films ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' ''Film/AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent'' and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. After this in 1975, the two co-wrote ''Fawlty Towers''. Booth played [[OnlySaneEmployee Polly Sherman]], a sarcastic waitress and art student who was constantly exasperated by the actions of her boss, Cleese's Basil Fawlty.
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->''"''Series/FawltyTowers'' succeeds, I think, because it allows infantile rage and aggression a field day in a buttoned-down, well-mannered English society. It's unique in being a farce, with all the plot surprises and precision that the style requires. And it doesn't hurt that the star of the show is a [[Creator/JohnCleese six-foot-five comic genius]]. If he was shorter, I can't imagine how it would have worked."''
Connie Booth, (2 December 1940) is an American actress best known for playing Polly Sherman in and co-writing ''Series/FawltyTowers''.
Her acting career began as an understudy on Broadway. She met Creator/JohnCleese when he was working in New York and the two married in 1968.
Thanks to Cleese, Booth played six different roles in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', and in the films ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. After this in 1975, the two co-wrote ''Fawlty Towers''. Booth played [[OnlySaneEmployee Polly Sherman]], a sarcastic waitress and art student who was constantly exasperated by the actions of her boss, Cleese's Basil Fawlty.
After Series 1 of ''Fawlty'', Cleese and Booth divorced but remained on [[AmicableExes good enough terms]] in order to write and star in a second series in 1979.
Booth gave up acting in 1995, now working as a psychotherapist.
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!!Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
[[AC:Films]]
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' (1975) -- Witch
* ''Film/HighSpirits'' (1988) -- Marge
[[AC:Series]]
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', 6 episodes:
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E9 The Ant: An Introduction]]" (1969) -- Best Girl
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E12 The Naked Ant]]" (1970) -- Rosamund
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS2E5 Live from the Grill-o-Mat]]" (1970) -- Schoolgirl/Petula Wilcox
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS3E1 Whicker's World]]" (1972) -- Juror
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS3E6 The War Against Pornography]]" (1972) -- Mother
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS4E4 Hamlet]]" (1974) -- Ophelia
* ''Series/PlayForToday'', 2 episodes:
** "The After Dinner Game" (1975) -- Lee-Ann Good
** "84, Charing Cross Road" (1975) -- Ginny
* ''Series/FawltyTowers'', 12 episodes (1975-79) -- Polly Sherman
* ''Series/WorzelGummidge'', episode "Will the Real Aunty Sally...?" (1981) -- Aunt Sally II
* ''Series/{{Bergerac}}'', episode "Winner Takes All" (1987) -- Monica [=McLeod=]
* ''Series/{{Jackanory}}'', 5-episode story "Charlotte's Web" (1990) -- Storyteller
* ''{{Series/The Tomorrow People|1973}}'', 2 episodes of 5-episode story "The Culex Experiment" (1994) -- Dr. Connor
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->''"''Series/FawltyTowers'' succeeds, I think, because it allows infantile rage and aggression a field day in a buttoned-down, well-mannered English society. It's unique in being a farce, with all the plot surprises and precision that the style requires. And it doesn't hurt that the star of the show is a [[Creator/JohnCleese six-foot-five comic genius]]. If he was shorter, I can't imagine how it would have worked."''
Connie Booth, (2 December 1940) is an American actress best known for playing Polly Sherman in and co-writing ''Series/FawltyTowers''.
Her acting career began as an understudy on Broadway. She met Creator/JohnCleese when he was working in New York and the two married in 1968.
Thanks to Cleese, Booth played six different roles in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', and in the films ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. After this in 1975, the two co-wrote ''Fawlty Towers''. Booth played [[OnlySaneEmployee Polly Sherman]], a sarcastic waitress and art student who was constantly exasperated by the actions of her boss, Cleese's Basil Fawlty.
After Series 1 of ''Fawlty'', Cleese and Booth divorced but remained on [[AmicableExes good enough terms]] in order to write and star in a second series in 1979.
Booth gave up acting in 1995, now working as a psychotherapist.
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!!Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
[[AC:Films]]
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' (1975) -- Witch
* ''Film/HighSpirits'' (1988) -- Marge
[[AC:Series]]
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', 6 episodes:
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E9 The Ant: An Introduction]]" (1969) -- Best Girl
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E12 The Naked Ant]]" (1970) -- Rosamund
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS2E5 Live from the Grill-o-Mat]]" (1970) -- Schoolgirl/Petula Wilcox
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS3E1 Whicker's World]]" (1972) -- Juror
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS3E6 The War Against Pornography]]" (1972) -- Mother
** "[[Recap/MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS4E4 Hamlet]]" (1974) -- Ophelia
* ''Series/PlayForToday'', 2 episodes:
** "The After Dinner Game" (1975) -- Lee-Ann Good
** "84, Charing Cross Road" (1975) -- Ginny
* ''Series/FawltyTowers'', 12 episodes (1975-79) -- Polly Sherman
* ''Series/WorzelGummidge'', episode "Will the Real Aunty Sally...?" (1981) -- Aunt Sally II
* ''Series/{{Bergerac}}'', episode "Winner Takes All" (1987) -- Monica [=McLeod=]
* ''Series/{{Jackanory}}'', 5-episode story "Charlotte's Web" (1990) -- Storyteller
* ''{{Series/The Tomorrow People|1973}}'', 2 episodes of 5-episode story "The Culex Experiment" (1994) -- Dr. Connor
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