Editing Connie Booth (section)

{{short description|American writer and actress (born 1940)}}
{{for|the businesswoman|Connie Booth (business executive)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name          = Connie Booth
| image         = Connie Booth.jpg
| alt           = A black and white image of Booth with a veil on her head.
| caption       = Booth in 1968
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1940|12|2}}
| birth_place   = [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], U.S.
| occupation    = Writer, actress, psychotherapist
| years_active  = 1968–1995
| spouse        = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[John Cleese]]|1968|1978|reason=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[John Lahr]]|2000}}
}}
| children      = 1
| relatives = [[Bert Lahr]] (father-in-law), [[Ed Solomon]] (former-son-in-law)
}}

'''Connie Booth''' (born December 2, 1940<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160311174538/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba09afd6f "Connie Booth"]. ''BFI''. Retrieved 13 July 2021.</ref>{{efn|There is speculation about Booth's birth year. Sources have also indicated 1939,<ref name=divorce/> 1941,<ref>Walker, John (June 2, 2003). ''Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies: 3rd edition''. London: HarperCollins, p.58. {{ISBN|0-00-715085-7}}.</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7vPDQAAQBAJ&q=connie+booth+1941+indianapolis&pg=RA1-PA1910|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=May 16, 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9781526111968}}</ref> and 1944.<ref name="camden" />}}) is an American actress and writer. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including her role as [[Polly Sherman]] on [[BBC Two]]'s ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', which she co-wrote with her then-husband [[John Cleese]]. In 1995, she quit acting and worked as a [[psychotherapist]] until her retirement.