Auriol Lee

Auriol Lee (13 September 1880 – 2 July 1941) was a popular British stage actress who became a successful West End and Broadway theatrical producer and director. Biography She was born in Maddox Street in the London district of St George's Hanover Square, the daughter of Katie and Robert James Lee. Auriol Lee’s father was a medical doctor who, according to her New York Times obituary, was a distant relative of Robert E. Lee. Auriol was educated both in England and at schools in Europe where she also received her training for the stage at La Monnaie in Brussels before making her London debut at around the age of twenty. Auriol made her Broadway debut in November, 1903 with the Forbes-Robertson Company in Kipling’s The Light that Failed. The previous month, while her troupe was in Boston, she played a round of golf with Alec Campbell, the golf pro at a prestigious Country Club in Brookline. Campbell later told the press that he was forced to play his best game to compensate for the handicap he had allowed her.