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