Valerie Boothby (born Wally Drucker, 18 October 1904[1] – 14 April 1982) was a German actress, painter, and writer.

Valerie Boothby was born Wally Drucker on 18 October 1904 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, in what was then the German Empire, although some sources list her birth year as 1906.

[2] Her father was Ernst Drucker (1856–1918), an actor and theater owner.

Upon the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Boothby left Berlin and settled in France.

She also lived in Cairo, Egypt for 15 years before returning to Hamburg in 1970, where she died on 14 April 1982.