Madge Lessing (27 November 1873 – 14 August 1966) was a British stage actress and singer, panto principal boy and postcard beauty of Edwardian musical comedy who had a successful career in the West End in London, Europe and on Broadway from 1890 to 1921 and who made a number of early film appearances in Germany for director Max Mack.

[1][2] In interviews she claimed that she had run away from home to go on the stage[1][3] travelling from London to the United States in about 1890 where she was a chorus girl at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York.

Her beauty was exuberant, voluptuous, pulse-stirring, a laughing, happy face, crowned and encircled with tangled masses of dark brown hair, which made her head almost too large, to be sure, though size counted for little amid the ravishments of sparkling eyes and kissable dimples that danced in and out on either cheek.

[7] In 1899 she played in A Dangerous Maid for 64 performances at the Casino Theatre in New York,[8] while in Boston at Christmas 1899 she appeared as 'Little Boy Blue' in 12 performances of the children's pantomime Little Red Riding Hood which in early January 1900 moved on to the Casino Theatre in New York, the home of the Broadway adult musical, where the production was transformed with additional female actresses added to the cast in scanty costumes and more risqué songs to cater for an adult audience.

[7] Of her performance in The Rounders a critic wrote: It is a thankless task, that of successorship which results inevitably in direct comparisons, but Miss Lessing met the test surprisingly well.

[7] In 1900 she appeared in the title role in the two act operetta The Lady Slavey by Gustave Kerker and George Dance when that musical farce was revived in Boston[7] and as Anita Tivoli in The Monks of Malabar.

She remained at the Metropol for four years until the outbreak of World War I forced her to return to England where she played in the London production of Sleeping Partners and the leading role in The Girl from Ciro's.