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Emily Booth
Born (1976-04-26) 26 April 1976 (age 47)
Chester, Cheshire, England
Other namesEmily "Bouff" Bouffante
Occupation(s)Actress, TV presenter, writer
Years active1997–present

Emily Katherine Booth (born 26 April 1976), also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter.

Early life

Booth was born 26 April 1976 in Chester, Cheshire, growing up in Hastings, East Sussex.[citation needed] Booth studied for three A levels and a BA in Media and Film degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London.[1] While she was a student, she earned money busking playing the violin and sang on Eurotrash.[2]

Career

Booth is known for her roles in cult films Pervirella, Cradle of Fear, Evil Aliens and the BAFTA nominated short film Inferno. She appeared in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double header Grindhouse (2007) in the mock trailer, "Don't", by Edgar Wright.[3]

Booth was also the host of several Channel 4 and satellite television shows. She co-presented and co-wrote the video-game review show, Bits for two years in 1999–2001. She was a segment presenter on Channel 4 flagship morning show, The Big Breakfast (2001), and presented on the gameshow Banzai for E4.[4] Other shows she worked on are: L!VE TV's Blue Review, paintball-challenge show, Mission: Paintball (2001–2), Threesome (1999) and Demolition (2002).

Booth has presented several television programmes related to cult films, including OUT There on five (2002) and Shock Movie Massacre on Bravo.

Booth is a presenter on Eat Cinema, interviewing A-list Hollywood stars on The Buzz and hosting her own show, First Night Bites. She also hosted the now-defunct Quiz Night Live, a premium-rate call-in quiz show, shown on satellite/Freeview channel Ftn. She presents The Match on the XLeague.tvchannel. In 2007, she joined Zone Horror, where she works as a presenter and continuity announcer.[4] In 2007, Booth became the face of the Horror Channel,[citation needed] and hosted a monthly highlights show, Horror Bites.

Booth was among the guests at the 2009 Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester[5] and announced the results of the Delta Film Award. She co-hosted the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival in Brighton in August 2012.[6]

She directed, produced and acted in a short film, Selkie, in 2014.[7]

Personal life

She has two children.[7]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2023 Werewolf Santa Carol
Terror Toons 4 Female Scientist
2022 Darkheart Manor Hazel
2020 They're Outside Penny
2019 Shed of the Dead Harriet
2016 London Horror Story Angry Woman segment "Over Developed"
Blaze of Gory Lea-anne segment "Precious"
2014 Selkie Selkie Short
2012 Three's a Shroud Segment "Over Developed"
Inbred June
2009 The Reverend Tracy
Terror Toons 3 Nurse Stanley
Doghouse The Snipper
2007 Grindhouse faux trailer segment Don't
2005 Evil Aliens Michelle Fox
2003 Spiderbabe Fly Girl scenes deleted
2002 Fallen Angels Sally Munro uncredited
Arthur's Amazing Things Denise Clarington-Semi-Skimmed Short film
2001 Inferno Laura
Cradle of Fear Mel as Emily Bouffante
Sacred Flesh Williams girl
1998 Witchcraft X: Mistress of the Craft Linnaca as Emily Bouffante
1997 Pervirella Pervirella [8]
Event Horizon Girl on monitor screen uncredited [8]

Television

References

  1. ^ Patterson, Cleaver (13 September 2015). "Emily Booth: Putting a Face to Television Horror as Presenter of Horror Channel". Film International. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Interesting Facts about Emily Booth". 2009. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Nerdly » Emily Booth". www.nerdly.co.uk. December 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Zone Horror Press Release" (PDF). 14 August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011.
  5. ^ Gallagher, Jim (2009). "the Festival of Fantastic Films". fantastic-films.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2009.
  6. ^ Cyberschizoid (30 November 2011). "Scream Queen Emily Booth Supports Frighten Brighton!". Frighten Brighton. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012.
  7. ^ a b Whittington, James (10 August 2013). "Horror Feature: Emily Booth To Produce And Star In Selkie". horrorchannel. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  8. ^ a b Simpson, M. J. (1997). "Emily Booth (interview)". MJSimpson.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
  9. ^ "outTHERE (TV Series)". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022.
  10. ^ Lewis-Smith, Victor (24 December 2002). "Smashing time? Hardly". Evening Standard. p. 91. Retrieved 3 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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