Lillian Lewis (1852 – August 11, 1899) was an American stage actor known for her performances in comedies and modern dramas in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

[1][2] Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events listed her birthplace as Midway, Kentucky,[1] though the Cameron County Press reported that she had been born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania before moving to Emporium as a young child.

In addition she played the principal woman in Camille, The Lady of Lyons, An Unequal Match, The New Magdalen, Frou-Frou, and Adrienne Lecouvreur.

Lewis went on to perform in As in a Looking Glass, Doña Sol, Credit Lorraine, Lady Lil, Good-by, Sweetheart, An Innocent Sinner, For Liberty and Love and The Widow Goldstein.

According to Marston, quoted in the Los Angeles Herald in December 1895, "You know that Cleopatra is a difficult character to portray; in fact, the most difficult character in the whole range of the drama, and Miss Lewis thinks that the barefoot ballet, or rather this barefoot and barelegged dance, has been advertised so extensively that the people go to the theater and want to see the dance in the first act, and as it does not come on until the third act it makes it very hard for her.

According to Curtin, "There was nothing in it from which Miss Lewis could have taken comfort, from the description of her entrance—'a barge drew up and from it descended a large, limp, lachrymose "Kleo-paw-tra", with an Iowa accent, a St. Louis air and the robust physique of a West England farmer's wife'—to the account of her death scene—'She sat down upon a cane-bottom dining-room chair, took her crown from a little sixteenth-century oak table, sighed and wept and heaved her breast and then died from an imaginary serpent hidden in a ditch of lettuce after having worn most atrocious gowns and having drawn and quartered and mangled some of the greatest lines in all the poetry of the world'".