Anna Q. Nilsson
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Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish-born actress who achieved success in American silent movies. Starring in some 200 feature films. The first Swedish actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1905, she had earned enough for a ticket across the Atlantic. In New York she was discovered on a thriving avenue by the famous portrait painter James Carroll Beckwith and soon she was New York's highest paid model. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.
Known for
Credits
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
as Anna Q. Nilsson
Shenandoah (1913)
as Gertrude Illingham
An American in Paris (1951)
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
Hello, 'Frisco (1924)
as Anna Q. Nilsson
The Inevitable (1917)
as Florence Grey
Her Surrender (1916)
as Rhoda Courtlandt
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
The Figurehead (1920)
as Mary Forbes
Painted People (1924)
as Leslie Carter
Blockade (1928)
as Bess
Vanity Pool (1918)
as Carol Harper
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
Adam's Rib (1949)
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
Without Limit (1921)
as Ember Edwards
School for Girls (1934)
as Dr. Anne Galvin
Show Boat (1951)
as Seamstress (uncredited)
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Actor
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
Infidelity (1917)
as Elaine Bernard
Cheating Cheaters (1919)
as Grace Palmer
One Hour Before Dawn (1920)
as Ellen Aldrich
Souls for Sale (1923)
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
as Mrs. Holstrom
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! (1931)
as Self
Sorrell and Son (1927)
as Dora Sorrell
The Unknown Man (1951)
as (uncredited)
The Greater Glory (1926)
as Fanny
The Great Man's Lady (1941)
as Paula Wales
Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921)
Actor
Grounds for Marriage (1951)
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher (1912)
as Betty - the Girl Telegrapher
Auction of Souls (1919)
as Edith Graham
Half-a-Dollar Bill (1924)
as The Stranger - Mrs. Webber
One Way Street (1925)
as Lady Sylvia Hutton
Crossroads (1942)
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
The Luck of the Irish (1920)
as Ruth Warren
It Had to Be You (1947)
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
as Saleslady
The Night Operator at Buxton (1915)
as Helen
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
The Moral Code (1917)
as Jean Hyland
The Way of the Strong (1919)
as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
The Siren's Reign (1915)
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
The Secret Heart (1946)
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
The Great Diamond Robbery (1954)
as Nurse (uncredited)
The Breath of Scandal (1924)
as Anna
The Scarlet Road (1916)
as Betty Belgrave
A Very Good Young Man (1919)
as Viva Bacchus
Venus in the East (1919)
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
A Sister's Burden (1915)
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
The Brute Master (1920)
as Madeline Grey
A Sporting Chance (1919)
as Pamela Brent
Babe Comes Home (1927)
as Vernie
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
as Nurse (uncredited)
Easy Pickings (1927)
as Mary Ryan
The Regeneration (1915)
as Marie Deering
I Live on Danger (1942)
as Mrs. Sherman
Three Live Ghosts (1922)
as Ivis
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)
as Mrs. Virey
Prison Farm (1938)
as Matron Ames
The Darling of the CSA (1912)
as Agnes Lane
The World Changes (1933)
as Mrs. Peterson
The 13th Commandment (1920)
as Leila Kip
The Little Minister (1934)
as Villager
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
Riders of the Timberline (1941)
as Donna Ryan
Cynthia (1947)
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
The Talker (1925)
as Kate Lennox
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
as Inez Laranetta
Winds of Chance (1925)
as Countess Courteau
The Lotus Eater (1921)
as Madge Vance
Lonesome Ladies (1927)
as Polly Fosdick
Midnight Lovers (1926)
as Diana Fothergill
The Confederate Ironclad (1912)
as Elinor
The Splendid Road (1925)
as Sandra De Hault
Girls' Town (1942)
as Mother Lorraine
Miss Nobody (1926)
as Barbara Brown
Hollywood (1923)
as Anna Q. Nilsson
What Women Will Do (1921)
as Lily Gibbs
The 13th Juror (1927)
as Helen Marsden
Over There (1917)
as Bettie Adams
The Tight Rein (1916)
as Amy
The Masked Woman (1927)
as Diane Delatour
Too Much Money (1926)
as Annabel Broadley
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917)
as Mary Norton
Headin' for God's Country (1943)
as Mrs. Nilsson
Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919)
as Carlotta Stanmore
Hearts Aflame (1923)
as Helen Foraker
Why Girls Leave Home (1921)
as Anna Hedder
Flowing Gold (1924)
as Allegheny Briskow
The Isle of Lost Ships (1923)
as Dorothy Fairfax
Barbara Frietchie (1915)
as Sue Negly
Behind the Criminal (1937)
as Madge
The Rustle of Silk (1923)
as Lady Feo
Broadway After Dark (1924)
as Helen Tremaine
Enemies of Children (1923)
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
The Man From Home (1922)
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
The Side Show of Life (1924)
as Lady Auriol Dayne
Soldiers of Fortune (1919)
as Alice Langham
The People of Värmland (1921)
as Anna
In the Heart of a Fool (1920)
as Margaret Muller
No Man's Land (1918)
as Katherine Gresham
The Toll Gate (1920)
as Mary Brown
The Whip (1928)
as Iris d'Aquila
Between Friends (1924)
as Jessica Drene
The Trail To Yesterday (1918)
Actor
Regeneration (1914)
as Katherine Williams
The Spoilers (1923)
as Cherry Malotte
The Supreme Sacrifice (1916)
as Helen Chambers
Adam's Rib (1923)
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
Ponjola (1923)
as Lady Flavia Desmond
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec (1914)
as Mignon Mars
The Love Burglar (1919)
as Joan Gray
The Fatal Legacy (1913)
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
The Haunting Fear (1915)
as Diana - an Adventuress
Vanity's Price (1924)
as Vanna du Maurier
The Fire Patrol (1924)
as Mary Ferguson
The Fighting Chance (1920)
as Sylvia Landis
In Judgment of... (1918)
as Mary Manners
Pink Gods (1922)
as Lady Margot Cork
Thundering Dawn (1923)
as Mary Rogers
If I Marry Again (1925)
as Alicia Wingate
The Destroyer (1915)
as Helen Vedrine
Heart of the Sunset (1918)
as Alaire Austin
A Mississippi Tragedy (1913)
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
Sold Out (1916)
as Leila Austin