Anna Q. Nilsson
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 model. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.
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- Born:
- Mar 30, 1888 In Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 89
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Darling of the CSA 1912-09-06
- Latest Project:
- Movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954-07-22
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mrs. Elcott (uncredited) | 1954-07-22 |
| Movie | The Great Diamond Robbery | Nurse (uncredited) | 1954-01-29 |
| Movie | Grounds for Marriage | Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited) | 1951-01-12 |
| Movie | Show Boat | Seamstress (uncredited) | 1951-07-19 |
| Movie | The Unknown Man | 1951-11-09 | |
| Movie | An American in Paris | Kay Jansen (uncredited) | 1951-09-26 |
| Movie | Sunset Boulevard | Anna Q. Nilsson | 1950-08-10 |
| Movie | In the Good Old Summertime | Woman with Harp (uncredited) | 1949-07-29 |
| Movie | Adam's Rib | Mrs. Poynter (uncredited) | 1949-11-18 |
| Movie | Fighting Father Dunne | Mrs. Olaf Knudson | 1948-05-12 |
| Movie | Every Girl Should Be Married | Saleslady | 1948-12-25 |
| Movie | The Farmer's Daughter | Mrs. Holstrom | 1947-03-26 |
| Movie | Cynthia | Miss Brady, English Teacher | 1947-08-29 |
| Movie | It Had to Be You | Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited) | 1947-12-07 |
| Movie | The Secret Heart | Dr. Rossiger's Secretary | 1946-12-25 |
| Movie | Headin' for God's Country | Mrs. Nilsson | 1943-08-26 |
| Movie | Cry 'Havoc' | Nurse (uncredited) | 1943-11-23 |
| Movie | Girls' Town | Mother Lorraine | 1942-03-06 |
| Movie | I Live on Danger | Mrs. Sherman | 1942-06-16 |
| Movie | Crossroads | Madame Deval (uncredited) | 1942-07-23 |
| Movie | Riders of the Timberline | Donna Ryan | 1941-09-17 |
| Movie | They Died with Their Boots On | Mrs. Taipe (uncredited) | 1941-11-20 |
| Movie | The Great Man's Lady | Paula Wales | 1941-10-31 |
| Movie | Prison Farm | Matron Ames | 1938-06-17 |
| Movie | Behind the Criminal | Madge | 1937-10-30 |
| Movie | Wanderer of the Wasteland | Mrs. Virey | 1935-09-09 |
| Movie | The Little Minister | Villager | 1934-12-28 |
| Movie | The World Changes | Mrs. Peterson | 1933-11-25 |
| Movie | Blockade | Bess | 1928-12-16 |
| Movie | Easy Pickings | Mary Ryan | 1927-02-20 |
| Movie | The Masked Woman | Diane Delatour | 1927-01-16 |
| Movie | Babe Comes Home | Vernie | 1927-05-22 |
| Movie | Lonesome Ladies | Polly Fosdick | 1927-07-03 |
| Movie | Sorrell and Son | Dora Sorrell | 1927-12-02 |
| Movie | Too Much Money | Annabel Broadley | 1926-01-03 |
| Movie | The Greater Glory | Fanny | 1926-05-02 |
| Movie | Miss Nobody | Barbara Brown | 1926-06-27 |
| Movie | Midnight Lovers | Diana Fothergill | 1926-10-25 |
| Movie | The Talker | Kate Lennox | 1925-05-24 |
| Movie | Winds of Chance | Countess Courteau | 1925-08-15 |
| Movie | The Side Show of Life | Lady Auriol Dayne | 1924-07-21 |
| Movie | Painted People | Leslie Carter | 1924-01-28 |
| Movie | Broadway After Dark | Helen Tremaine | 1924-05-19 |
| Movie | The Fire Patrol | Mary Ferguson | 1924-08-14 |
| Movie | Inez from Hollywood | Inez Laranetta | 1924-12-14 |
| Movie | Hello, 'Frisco | Anna Q. Nilsson | 1924-09-28 |
| Movie | Souls for Sale | Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) | 1923-04-22 |
| Movie | The Isle of Lost Ships | Dorothy Fairfax | 1923-03-17 |
| Movie | Hollywood | Anna Q. Nilsson | 1923-08-19 |
| Movie | Ponjola | Lady Flavia Desmond | 1923-10-28 |
| Movie | Adam's Rib | Mrs. Michael Ramsay | 1923-09-24 |
| Movie | Thundering Dawn | Mary Rogers | 1923-11-05 |
| Movie | Three Live Ghosts | Ivis | 1922-01-01 |
| Movie | A Trip to Paramountown | Self | 1922-07-10 |
| Movie | The Man From Home | Genevieve Granger-Simpson | 1922-04-30 |
| Movie | The People of Värmland | 1921-10-23 | |
| Movie | Without Limit | Ember Edwards | 1921-03-20 |
| Movie | The Lotus Eater | Madge Vance | 1921-11-27 |
| Movie | Ten Nights in a Bar Room | 1921-12-11 | |
| Movie | The Toll Gate | Mary Brown | 1920-04-15 |
| Movie | The Fighting Chance | Sylvia Landis | 1920-08-01 |
| Movie | Venus in the East | Mrs. Pat Dyvenot | 1919-01-26 |
| Movie | Auction of Souls | 1919-01-19 | |
| Movie | Cheating Cheaters | Grace Palmer | 1919-01-26 |
| Movie | The Love Burglar | Joan Gray | 1919-07-13 |
| Movie | Her Kingdom of Dreams | Carlotta Stanmore | 1919-09-21 |
| Movie | A Sporting Chance | Pamela Brent | 1919-07-13 |
| Movie | Heart of the Sunset | 1918-03-01 | |
| Movie | The Trail To Yesterday | 1918-05-06 | |
| Movie | No Man's Land | Katherine Gresham | 1918-07-08 |
| Movie | Vanity Pool | Carol Harper | 1918-12-07 |
| Movie | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mary Norton | 1917-10-16 |
| Movie | Over There | Bettie Adams | 1917-10-27 |
| Movie | The Supreme Sacrifice | Helen Chambers | 1916-03-20 |
| Movie | The Scarlet Road | Betty Belgrave | 1916-02-16 |
| Movie | The Tight Rein | Amy | 1916-05-14 |
| Movie | Her Surrender | Rhoda Courtlandt | 1916-10-01 |
| Movie | The Destroyer | Helen Vedrine | 1915-04-30 |
| Movie | The Night Operator at Buxton | Helen | 1915-03-13 |
| Movie | The Siren's Reign | Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman | 1915-04-02 |
| Movie | A Sister's Burden | Ida - Nathanial's Wife | 1915-05-10 |
| Movie | The Regeneration | Marie Deering | 1915-09-12 |
| Movie | The Haunting Fear | Diana - an Adventuress | 1915-06-11 |
| Movie | A Mississippi Tragedy | Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter | 1913-04-05 |
| Movie | Shenandoah | Gertrude Illingham | 1913-07-04 |
| Movie | The Fatal Legacy | Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife | 1913-09-10 |
| Movie | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Eliza - a Runaway Slave | 1913-12-17 |
| Movie | The Darling of the CSA | Agnes Lane | 1912-09-06 |
| Movie | The Confederate Ironclad | Elinor | 1912-10-04 |