Editing Connie Booth (section)

==Acting career==
Booth secured parts in episodes of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' (1969–74) and in the Python films ''[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]'' (1971) and ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' (1975, as a woman accused of being a witch). She also appeared in ''[[How to Irritate People]]'' (1968), a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members; a short film titled ''[[Romance with a Double Bass]]'' (1974) which Cleese adapted from a short story by [[Anton Chekhov]]; and ''[[The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It]]'' (1977), Cleese's [[Sherlock Holmes]] spoof, as [[Mrs. Hudson]].<ref name="BFI">{{cite web | title=Connie Booth | website=BFI | date=2016-03-11 | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba09afd6f | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218072452/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba09afd6f | archive-date=2022-12-18 | url-status=unfit | access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>

Booth and Cleese co-wrote and co-starred in ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' (1975 and 1979), in which she played waitress and chambermaid [[Polly Sherman|Polly]]. For thirty years Booth declined to talk about the show until she agreed to participate in a documentary about the series for the digital channel [[Gold (British TV channel)|Gold]] in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Parker, Robin|date=March 23, 2009|url=http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/03/gold_to_reopen_fawlty_towers.html|title=Gold to reopen Fawlty Towers|work=Broadcastnow|access-date=March 23, 2009|url-status=deviated|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326081807/http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/03/gold_to_reopen_fawlty_towers.html|archive-date=March 26, 2009}}</ref>

Booth played various roles on British television, including Sophie in ''[[Dickens of London]]'' (1976), Mrs. Errol in a BBC adaptation of ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 film)|Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'' (1980) and Miss March in a dramatisation of [[Edith Wharton]]'s ''[[The Buccaneers]]'' (1995). She also starred in the lead role of a drama called ''The Story of Ruth'' (1981), in which she played the role of the [[schizophrenia|schizophrenic]] daughter of an abusive father.<ref name="BFI"/><ref>{{cite web | last=Hayward | first=Anthony | title=John Purdie obituary | website=the Guardian | date=2022-10-24 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/24/john-purdie-obituary | access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref> In 1994, she played a supporting role in [[List of The Tomorrow People serials#Series 2 2|"The Culex Experiment"]], an episode of the children's science fiction TV series ''[[The Tomorrow People]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Tomorrow People: The Culex Experiment – Part 1 | website=theLogBook.com – The Official Site of What Tomorrow Looked Like Yesterday | date=1994-01-04 | url=https://www.thelogbook.com/2moro2-201/ | access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>

Booth also had a stage career, primarily in the London theatre, appearing in 10 productions from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, notably starring with [[John Mills]] in the 1983–1984 West End production of ''Little Lies'' at [[Wyndham's Theatre]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 April 1983 |title=Theatre News: Production news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19830414/019/0032 |work=The Stage |location=London |access-date= 8 November 2023}}</ref>