Viva Birkett (14 February 1887 – 27 June 1934) was a British stage actress active on both sides of the Atlantic over the early decades of the twentieth century.

[3] Viva studied acting under the American thespian Kate Bateman (1842–1917)[4] and made her London stage debut on 28 June 1906 as a guest performer at the Lyric Theatre in a revival of Monsieur Beaucaire and her New York City debut at the Hudson Theatre on 30 August of that same year playing Helen Plugenet in Hypocrites.

[5] For the remainder of her career she would continue to perform in London and New York and tour with companies headed by George Arliss, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and Henry Jowett.

[6] On 23 July 1912, Viva married British actor Philip Merivale at St Marylebone Parish Church in London.

[7][8][9] Viva Birkett died from cancer on 27 June 1934, less than a month after leaving New York to return to her home on Seymour Road in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.