[1] Russell appeared many times on Broadway, often in Shakespeare dramas with her husband,[2] including Othello (1904, 1905, 1907, 1909), Richard III (1904, 1907, 1909), King Lear (1905, 1907, 1909), Macbeth (1905, 1907, 1909),[3] Hamlet (1905, 1909), The Merchant of Venice (1907), Julius Caesar (1907), King John (1909),[4] and Romeo and Juliet (1909).

[6] "Miss Russell has very beautiful eyes," commented one American reviewer in 1907, "but she uses them too noticeably, which detracts from her work.

"A worse exhibition of wriggling, writhing, moaning, gurgling, and mouthing cannot be imagined than she indulged in," commented another American reviewer in 1909, adding "If only she could learn the value of simplicity and naturalness.

[12] She became the third wife of British actor Robert B. Mantell in 1899, and helped to raise his daughter, Ethel (born 1895).

[13] She died in 1911,[14] at her home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey,[1][15] aged 37 years, after "a malady of long standing gradually gained the mastery over her strong constitution," or kidney disease complicated by pneumonia.