Eleanor Elise Robson Belmont (13 December 1879 – 24 October 1979) was an English actress and prominent public figure in the United States.

[1] George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara for her, but contractual problems prevented her from playing the role.

Her mother was an English-born American stage actress and as a young girl, Eleanor moved to the United States.

[2] Her stage career began at age 17 in San Francisco and she worked in stock companies from Honolulu to Milwaukee.

[4] Her ten-year career as a leading Broadway actress included top roles in such plays as Robert Browning's In a Balcony (1900), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1903) opposite Kyrle Bellew, Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann (1903–04 and 1907), Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1905), Zangwill's Nurse Marjorie (1906), and Paul Armstrong's adaptation of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane (1907).