Dorothea Caroline "Doris" Devrient (née Böhler; 20 February 1801 – 29 May 1882) was a German actress and soprano singer, best known for comedic and soubrettes roles.

[1] Her father originally worked as a lawyer in Mannheim but was persuaded to take up acting by August Wilhelm Iffland and then gained a reputation in Frankfurt am Main for comic and character roles.

[1] Her father's death in 1816 prompted her mother and sister to accept an engagement at the Estates Theatre in Prague, where Doris portrayed children's parts.

[4][5] Along with her mother and sister, she went to the Stadttheater in Leipzig in 1817, which was then under the direction of Karl Theodor von Küstner, where she continued to be a child actor.

[5] The Devrients had four children together but their marriage started to fail in the late 1830s as the natural and fun-loving Doris clashed with the emotionally controlling Emil.