Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 30, 1888
Died
Feb 11, 1974
Place of Birth
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Credits
127 titles
Anna Q. Nilsson
Biography
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
Filmography
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
The Great Diamond Robbery
Nurse (uncredited)
The Unknown Man
(uncredited)
An American in Paris
Kay Jansen (uncredited)
Show Boat
Seamstress (uncredited)
Grounds for Marriage
Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
Anna Q. Nilsson
Adam's Rib
Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
In the Good Old Summertime
Woman with Harp (uncredited)
Every Girl Should Be Married
Saleslady
The Boy with Green Hair
Fighting Father Dunne
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
It Had to Be You
Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
Cynthia
Miss Brady, English Teacher
The Farmer's Daughter
Mrs. Holstrom
The Secret Heart
Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
Cry 'Havoc'
Nurse (uncredited)
Headin' for God's Country
Mrs. Nilsson
Crossroads
Madame Deval (uncredited)
I Live on Danger
Mrs. Sherman
Girls' Town
Mother Lorraine
They Died with Their Boots On
Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
The Great Man's Lady
Paula Wales
Riders of the Timberline
Donna Ryan
Prison Farm
Matron Ames
Behind the Criminal
Madge
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Mrs. Virey
The Little Minister
Villager
School for Girls
Dr. Anne Galvin
The World Changes
Mrs. Peterson
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Self
Blockade
Bess
The Whip
Iris d'Aquila
Sorrell and Son
Dora Sorrell
The 13th Juror
Helen Marsden
Lonesome Ladies
Polly Fosdick
Babe Comes Home
Vernie
Easy Pickings
Mary Ryan
The Masked Woman
Diane Delatour
Midnight Lovers
Diana Fothergill
Miss Nobody
Barbara Brown
The Greater Glory
Fanny
Too Much Money
Annabel Broadley
The Splendid Road
Sandra De Hault
Winds of Chance
Countess Courteau
The Talker
Kate Lennox
One Way Street
Lady Sylvia Hutton
If I Marry Again
Alicia Wingate
Inez from Hollywood
Inez Laranetta
Hello, 'Frisco
Anna Q. Nilsson