Lily Geertruida Maria Henriëtte Bouwmeester (28 September 1901 – 12 July 1993) was a Dutch theater and film actress, who was crowned with a Golden Calf for being "the best actress in Pre-War Dutch cinema".

The touring proved to be too exhausting for Bouwmeester, so she moved in with her aunt in 1913, the actress Theo Mann-Bouwmeester.

Two years later, she married Cor van der Lugt Melsert, with whom she moved to Rotterdam.

In 1935, when the sound film had just been introduced in the Netherlands, she auditioned for the lead role in The Cross-Patch (1935), but had no luck.

During World War II, Bouwmeester secretly took in two Jewish children in her home.

She decided to return to theatre instead and played in the famous stage production of Pygmalion.

After the death of her husband in 1990, she moved to Sliedrecht, where she spent the rest of her life in complete loneliness.