- Born
- Birth nameConstance Booth Bollinger
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Connie Booth was born on December 2, 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Fawlty Towers (1975) and And Now for Something Completely Different (1971). She has been married to John Lahr since August 19, 2000. She was previously married to John Cleese.
- SpousesJohn Lahr(August 19, 2000 - present)John Cleese(February 20, 1968 - August 1, 1978) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Worked as a psychotherapist in North London.
- Together with John Lahr for 15 years before they married in New Jersey in 2000.
- In addition to playing Polly in the TV series "Fawlty Towers", she also wrote a number of episodes.
- She appeared in two adaptations of the 1970 epistolary memoir "84, Charing Cross Road": 84, Charing Cross Road (1975) and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987). She played Ginny in the former and the Lady from Delaware in the latter.
- Attended Penn Hall Preparatory School and Junior College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA, from which she graduated in 1959.
- [on Fawlty Towers (1975)] People say that nobody but [John Cleese] could have played Basil; it's just as true that nobody but [Andrew Sachs] could have played Manuel, even though there was a time when Andrew, who was German by birth, wanted to play the character in German. The character became iconic.
- 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.
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