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