Connie Booth

American actress and writer

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Connie Booth is an American actress and writer, best known for her collaboration with John Cleese. She co-wrote and starred alongside Cleese in the acclaimed British sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979), playing the roles of Polly Sherman and Polly Starkie, respectively. Booth and Cleese were married from 1968 to 1978.12

Booth's career also includes writing and performing in various comedy shows and films. She contributed to the writing of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and acted in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Her other acting credits include The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It and The Frost Report.12

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Fawlty Towers
…by American actress and writer Connie Booth and British comic actor and writer John Cleese, who had been a cast member in the acclaimed British sketch comedy television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–73). Booth and Cleese married in 1968 and have one daughter, Cynthia Cleese, who went on to…
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…by American actress and writer Connie Booth and British comic actor and writer John Cleese, who had been a cast member in the acclaimed British sketch comedy television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–73). Booth and Cleese married in 1968 and have one daughter, Cynthia Cleese, who went on to…
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