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.

[1] She was born in Maddox Street in the London district of St George's Hanover Square, the daughter of Katie and Robert James Lee.

[1] 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.

[5] Over the remainder of her career she had a close working relationship with British playwright John Van Druten, directing all his Broadway productions that fell between 1931 and her death some ten years later.

[1] She was returning to New York from Hollywood where she had gone to play the writer Isobel Sedbusk in Alfred Hitchcock's film Suspicion[6] and pay Van Druten a visit at his Southern California ranch.