Constance FitzMaurice, Countess of Orkney (23 January 1865 – 9 May 1946), also known as Connie Gilchrist, was a British child artist's model, actress, dancer and singer who, at a very early age, attracted the attention of the painters Frederic Leighton, Frank Holl, William Powell Frith and James McNeill Whistler, the writer and photographer Lewis Carroll and aristocrats, Lord Lonsdale and the Duke of Beaufort.

She became a popular attraction on stage at the age of 12 in a skipping rope dance routine at London's Gaiety Theatre, where she was then engaged in Victorian burlesque and vaudeville throughout her formative years.

Over the 1874–1875 Christmas season, she played Harlequin in an all-children's cast of the pantomime The Children of the Wood, an adaptation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale staged at the Adelphi Theatre London.

In 1880 she played Libby Ray in the Benjamin Edward Woolf comic opera The Mighty Dollar; Baron Montgiron in The Corsican Brothers and Co., Limited by F. C. Burnand and H. P. Stephens; and Polly in Bubbles by Charles L. Fawcett.

[7][9][10][11][12] In the summer of 1886, Gilchrist turned 21 and came to America with the Violet Cameron Comic Opera Company for an American tour that began at New York's Casino Theatre with The Commodore, an adaptation by Henry Brougham Farnie of Offenbach's, Le Creol.

[17] After their marriage the couple quietly retired to Tythe House, Lord Orkney's estate in Stewkley, as they were largely excluded from British upper class circles at the time.