Anna Q. Nilsson

Mar 30, 1888 - Feb 11, 1974 (85 years old) in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

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

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The Talker

Kate Lennox

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Sold Out

Leila Austin

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Hollywood

Anna Q. Nilsson

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Hello, 'Frisco

Anna Q. Nilsson

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Ponjola

Lady Flavia Desmond

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Flowing Gold

Allegheny Briskow

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In the Good Old Summertime

Woman with Harp (uncredited)

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The Regeneration

Marie Deering

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Sorrell and Son

Dora Sorrell

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Without Limit

Ember Edwards

Credits

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954

Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)

★ 7.1
The Great Diamond Robbery 1954

Nurse (uncredited)

★ NR
The Unknown Man 1951

★ 4.8
An American in Paris 1951

Kay Jansen (uncredited)

★ 7
Show Boat 1951

Seamstress (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Grounds for Marriage 1951

Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)

★ 4.3
Sunset Boulevard 1950

Anna Q. Nilsson

★ 8.3
In the Good Old Summertime 1949

Woman with Harp (uncredited)

★ 6.6
Every Girl Should Be Married 1948

Saleslady

★ 6.1
Fighting Father Dunne 1948

Mrs. Olaf Knudson

★ 6
It Had to Be You 1947

Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)

★ 6.5
Cynthia 1947

Miss Brady, English Teacher

★ 5.9
The Farmer's Daughter 1947

Mrs. Holstrom

★ 6.9
The Secret Heart 1946

Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

★ 6.3
Cry 'Havoc' 1943

Nurse (uncredited)

★ 6.3
Headin' for God's Country 1943

Mrs. Nilsson

★ NR
Crossroads 1942

Madame Deval (uncredited)

★ 5.8
I Live on Danger 1942

Mrs. Sherman

★ 5.7
Girls' Town 1942

Mother Lorraine

★ NR
They Died with Their Boots On 1941

Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)

★ 6.6
The Great Man's Lady 1941

Paula Wales

★ 6.3
Riders of the Timberline 1941

Donna Ryan

★ 2
Prison Farm 1938

Matron Ames

★ 5.7
Behind the Criminal 1937

Madge

★ 5.7
Wanderer of the Wasteland 1935

Mrs. Virey

★ 5
The Little Minister 1934

Villager

★ 5.5
School for Girls 1934

Dr. Anne Galvin

★ 6
The World Changes 1933

Mrs. Peterson

★ 4.3
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! 1931

Self

★ NR
Blockade 1928

Bess

★ NR
The Whip 1928

Iris d'Aquila

★ NR
Sorrell and Son 1927

Dora Sorrell

★ 5.7
The 13th Juror 1927

Helen Marsden

★ NR
Lonesome Ladies 1927

Polly Fosdick

★ NR
Babe Comes Home 1927

Vernie

★ NR
Easy Pickings 1927

Mary Ryan

★ NR
The Masked Woman 1927

Diane Delatour

★ NR
Midnight Lovers 1926

Diana Fothergill

★ 6
Miss Nobody 1926

Barbara Brown

★ NR
The Greater Glory 1926

Fanny

★ NR
Too Much Money 1926

Annabel Broadley

★ NR
The Splendid Road 1925

Sandra De Hault

★ NR
Winds of Chance 1925

Countess Courteau

★ 4.8
The Talker 1925

Kate Lennox

★ 1
If I Marry Again 1925

Alicia Wingate

★ 1
Inez from Hollywood 1924

Inez Laranetta

★ NR
Hello, 'Frisco 1924

Anna Q. Nilsson

★ 5
Vanity's Price 1924

Vanna du Maurier

★ NR
The Breath of Scandal 1924

★ NR
The Fire Patrol 1924

Mary Ferguson

★ NR
The Side Show of Life 1924

Lady Auriol Dayne

★ NR
Broadway After Dark 1924

Helen Tremaine

★ NR
Between Friends 1924

Jessica Drene

★ NR
Flowing Gold 1924

Allegheny Briskow

★ NR
Painted People 1924

Leslie Carter

★ NR
Enemies of Children 1923

Patricia - Patsy as an adult

★ NR
Thundering Dawn 1923

Mary Rogers

★ NR
Ponjola 1923

Lady Flavia Desmond

★ 5
Adam's Rib 1923

Mrs. Michael Ramsay

★ 5.8
The Spoilers 1923

Cherry Malotte

★ NR
Hollywood 1923

Anna Q. Nilsson

★ 8.5
The Rustle of Silk 1923

Lady Feo

★ NR
Souls for Sale 1923

Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

★ 6.2
The Isle of Lost Ships 1923

Dorothy Fairfax

★ NR
Hearts Aflame 1923

Helen Foraker

★ NR
Pink Gods 1922

Lady Margot Cork

★ NR
A Trip to Paramountown 1922

Self

★ 7.3
The Man From Home 1922

Genevieve Granger-Simpson

★ 6.2
Three Live Ghosts 1922

Ivis

★ 6
Ten Nights in a Bar Room 1921

★ NR
The Lotus Eater 1921

Madge Vance

★ NR
The People of Värmland 1921

★ 6.3
Why Girls Leave Home 1921

Anna Hedder

★ NR
Without Limit 1921

Ember Edwards

★ NR
What Women Will Do 1921

★ NR
In the Heart of a Fool 1920

Margaret Muller

★ 1
The Fighting Chance 1920

Sylvia Landis

★ NR
One Hour Before Dawn 1920

Ellen Aldrich

★ NR
The Toll Gate 1920

Mary Brown

★ 5.3
The 13th Commandment 1920

★ NR
The Luck of the Irish 1920

Ruth Warren

★ 1
Soldiers of Fortune 1919

Alice Langham

★ NR
Her Kingdom of Dreams 1919

Carlotta Stanmore

★ NR
The Love Burglar 1919

Joan Gray

★ NR
A Sporting Chance 1919

Pamela Brent

★ NR
The Way of the Strong 1919

Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton

★ NR
Cheating Cheaters 1919

Grace Palmer

★ NR
Venus in the East 1919

Mrs. Pat Dyvenot

★ NR
Auction of Souls 1919

★ 4.9
Vanity Pool 1918

Carol Harper

★ NR
In Judgment of... 1918

Mary Manners

★ NR
No Man's Land 1918

Katherine Gresham

★ NR
The Trail To Yesterday 1918

★ NR
Heart of the Sunset 1918

★ NR
Over There 1917

Bettie Adams

★ NR
Seven Keys to Baldpate 1917

Mary Norton

★ 4.4
The Inevitable 1917

Florence Grey

★ NR
The Moral Code 1917

Jean Hyland

★ NR
Her Surrender 1916

Rhoda Courtlandt

★ NR
Sold Out 1916

Leila Austin

★ NR
The Tight Rein 1916

Amy

★ NR
The Supreme Sacrifice 1916

Helen Chambers

★ NR
The Scarlet Road 1916

Betty Belgrave

★ NR
Barbara Frietchie 1915

Sue Negly

★ NR
The Regeneration 1915

Marie Deering

★ 6.8
The Haunting Fear 1915

Diana - an Adventuress

★ NR
A Sister's Burden 1915

Ida - Nathanial's Wife

★ NR
The Destroyer 1915

Helen Vedrine

★ NR
The Siren's Reign 1915

Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

★ NR
The Night Operator at Buxton 1915

Helen

★ NR
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec 1914

Mignon Mars

★ NR
Regeneration 1914

Katherine Williams

★ 7.5
Uncle Tom's Cabin 1913

Eliza - a Runaway Slave

★ NR
The Fatal Legacy 1913

Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

★ NR
Shenandoah 1913

Gertrude Illingham

★ NR
A Mississippi Tragedy 1913

Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

★ NR
The Confederate Ironclad 1912

Elinor

★ 5.3
The Darling of the CSA 1912

Agnes Lane

★ 4

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