Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born famous British American actress and theatre owner .

As a young woman and strolling player, her theatrical travels took her, her mother and half sisters as far away as Jamaica in the West Indies islands chain and Caribbean Sea, by sailing ship, where one of her step-fathers died.

[2] She appeared in several plays with both him and his youngest son, John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), who would later engage in a conspiracy and stalk, later assassinate 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, served 1861-1865), at the end of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

The Drews owned the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they staged performances, and she managed the business.

Near the end of her stage career, in May 1895, the aged Mrs Drew appeared in an all-star revival of Anglo-Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's (1751-1816), The Rivals.