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