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