Evangeline Frances Russell (August 18, 1902 – February 22, 1966) was an American actress known for her work in silent Westerns of the 1920s.

She was something of a method actor; she recounted trying to harden her feet by walking barefoot for six weeks in preparation for a role in 1927's Hawk of the Hills.

Earle (her final husband), producer J. Stuart Blackton,[5] Roy Wayne, actor Carey Harrison, and rancher Raymond Claymore; she divorced him when she found out he was "a full-blooded Indian".

[7] After Blackton (whose fortune was lost in the Great Depression)[8] died in a car accident in 1941,[9] she fell on hard times,[10] taking on work as a babysitter, stuntwoman, extra, and taxi driver to supplement her income and support her children.

[7][11] She died in Los Angeles in 1966; she was survived by Earle and her two children, Frank and Elizabeth, from her marriage to Harrison.