Emily Booth


Emily Katherine Booth, also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter.

Early life

Booth was born April 26, 1976 in Chester, Cheshire, growing up in Hastings, East Sussex. Booth studied for three A levels and a BA in Media and Film degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London. While she was a student she earned money busking playing the violin and sang on Eurotrash. Booth once worked in PR for the London-based Salvation Films, has been an animal rights campaigner and has some rats as pets.

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 and in the mock trailer "Don't", by Edgar Wright.
Booth was also the host of several Channel 4 and satellite television shows. She co-presented and co-wrote video game review show Bits for two years. She was a segment presenter on Channel 4 flagship morning show The Big Breakfast, and presented on the gameshow Banzai for E4. Other shows she worked on are L!VE TV's Blue Review, paintball challenge show Mission: Paintball, Threesome and Demolition.
Booth has presented several television programmes related to cult films, including OUT There on five 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. In 2007, Booth became the face of the Horror Channel, and hosted a monthly highlights show, Horror Bites.
Booth was among the guests at the 2009 Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester and announced the results of the Delta Film Award. She co-hosted the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival in Brighton in August 2012.
She directed, produced and acted in a short film, Selkie, in 2014.

Personal life

Her paternal great-grandfather built one of the first cinemas in the UK in Cornwall.
She has two children.

Filmography

Television