Juliette Nesville

young woman in semu-profile, wearing a large and ornate hat
Nesville by the Atelier Nadar

Juliette Nesville was the stage name of Juliette-Hortense Lesne (30 July 1869 – 26 July 1900), a French singer and actress in operetta and musicals, who made most of her short career in London, after early success in Paris and Brussels.

After training at the Paris Conservatoire Nesville appeared in opéras comiques by Paul Lacôme, Robert Planquette, Edmond Audran and Charles Lecocq in 1890. After a highly successful appearance in the Brussels production of Audran's Miss Helyett she was engaged by the English manager Charles Wyndham in 1891 to play the part in London. She then appeared for George Edwardes in a succession of West End musical comedies during the rest of the decade, interspersed with two non-musical plays for other managements. She died in Paris after a short illness while appearing there in 1900, aged thirty.