Florence Nash (née Ryan) (October 2, 1888 — April 2, 1950) was an American actress and author.

Florence was born to James H. and Ellen Frances (née McNamara) Ryan.

She and her sister adopted the surname of their stepfather, Philip F. Nash, a vaudeville booking executive, who married their mother after the death of their father, a lawyer.

She was a noted theater actor and comedian in vaudeville until the 1930s (appearing in sketches including In 1999), when she moved to Hollywood to try her luck with films.

[4] After her retirement from acting in 1939, she spent the next decade living comfortably in Hollywood, California where she died on April 2, 1950.