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==Personal life== In 1971, Booth and Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia,<ref name="camden" /> who appeared alongside her father in the films ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' and ''[[Fierce Creatures]]''. Booth and Cleese divorced in 1978.<ref name=divorce>{{Cite news|title=Divorce for Cleese|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PwI-AAAAIBAJ&pg=4335,1935462|access-date=November 16, 2010|newspaper=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=September 9, 1978 | page = 5}}</ref> With Cleese, Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both series of ''Fawlty Towers'', although the two were actually divorced before the second series was finished and aired. Their daughter Cynthia married screenwriter [[Ed Solomon]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite web | last=Cate | first=Hans ten | title=NEWS 1997_02_12 β John Cleese Shoots Daughter Cynthia | website=Daily Llama | date=February 12, 1997 | url=http://www.dailyllama.com/news/1997/llama062.html | access-date=March 3, 2019 | archive-date=September 24, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924184151/http://www.dailyllama.com/news/1997/llama062.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=THE SOCIAL SCENE β A Cleese Wedding Held Away From the 'Fawlty' Line / British comedian's daughter marries in the Napa Valley | website=SFGate | date=September 18, 1995 | url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/THE-SOCIAL-SCENE-A-Cleese-Wedding-Held-Away-3024670.php | access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref> Booth married [[John Lahr]], author and former ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' senior drama critic, in 2000. They live in [[North London]].<ref name=Independent>{{Cite news|last=Milmo | first= Cahal | title = Life after Polly: Connie Booth (a case of Fawlty memory syndrome) | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/life-after-polly-connie-booth-a-case-of-fawlty-memory-syndrome-450289.html|work=[[The Independent]]|publisher=Independent Print, Ltd.|location=London, England|date=May 25, 2007|access-date=September 8, 2011 |url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080502123852/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/life-after-polly-connie-booth-a-case-of-fawlty-memory-syndrome-450289.html | archive-date=May 2, 2008}}</ref>
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