Creator / Connie Booth

"Fawlty Towers 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 six-foot-five comic genius. If he was shorter, I can't imagine how it would have worked."

Connie Booth, (born December 2, 1940), is an American actress best known for playing Polly Sherman in and co-writing Fawlty Towers.

Her acting career began as an understudy on Broadway. She met John Cleese when he was working in New York and the two married in 1968.

Thanks to Cleese, Booth played six different roles in Monty Python's Flying Circus and had roles in the films And Now For Something Completely Different and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After this in 1975, the two co-wrote Fawlty Towers. Booth played 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 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:

Films

• How to Irritate People (1969) — Various
• And Now For Something Completely Different (1971) — Bluenose/Voice of Self-Defense Nun/Best Girl
• Romance with a Double Bass (1974) — Princess Costanza
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) — Witch
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) — Laura Lyons
• High Spirits (1988) — Marge

Series

• Monty Python's Flying Circus, 6 episodes:
  • "The Ant: An Introduction" (1969) — Best Girl
  • "The Naked Ant" (1970) — Rosamund
  • "Live from the Grill-o-Mat" (1970) — Schoolgirl/Petula Wilcox
  • "Whicker's World" (1972) — Juror
  • "The War Against Pornography" (1972) — Mother
  • "Hamlet" (1974) — Ophelia
• Play for Today, 2 episodes:
  • "The After Dinner Game" (1975) — Lee-Ann Good
  • "84, Charing Cross Road" (1975) — Ginny
• Fawlty Towers, 12 episodes (1975-79) — Polly Sherman
• Worzel Gummidge, episode "Will the Real Aunty Sally...?" (1981) — Aunt Sally II
• Bergerac, episode "Winner Takes All" (1987) — Monica McLeod
• Jackanory, 5-episode story "Charlotte's Web" (1990) — Storyteller
• The Tomorrow People, 2 episodes of 5-episode story "The Culex Experiment" (1994) — Dr. Connor

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