Anna Q. Nilsson
Acting • Born 1888-03-30 – Died 1974-02-11
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.
Filmography
127 credits
Sunset Boulevard
Movie • 1950
Anna Q. Nilsson
One Hour Before Dawn
Movie • 1920
Ellen Aldrich
Sold Out
Movie • 1916
Leila Austin
Enemies of Children
Movie • 1923
Patricia - Patsy as an adult
Cheating Cheaters
Movie • 1919
Grace Palmer
In Judgment of...
Movie • 1918
Mary Manners
The Fighting Chance
Movie • 1920
Sylvia Landis
The Little Minister
Movie • 1934
Villager
The Love Burglar
Movie • 1919
Joan Gray
Soldiers of Fortune
Movie • 1919
Alice Langham
If I Marry Again
Movie • 1925
Alicia Wingate
Auction of Souls
Movie • 1919
Regeneration
Movie • 1914
Katherine Williams
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Movie • 1914
Mignon Mars
Shenandoah
Movie • 1913
Gertrude Illingham
The Fatal Legacy
Movie • 1913
Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
A Mississippi Tragedy
Movie • 1913
Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Movie • 1913
Eliza - a Runaway Slave
The Siren's Reign
Movie • 1915
Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
The Destroyer
Movie • 1915
Helen Vedrine
A Sister's Burden
Movie • 1915
Ida - Nathanial's Wife
The Haunting Fear
Movie • 1915
Diana - an Adventuress
Hollywood
Movie • 1923
Anna Q. Nilsson
The Supreme Sacrifice
Movie • 1916
Helen Chambers
In the Heart of a Fool
Movie • 1920
Margaret Muller
The Night Operator at Buxton
Movie • 1915
Helen
Flowing Gold
Movie • 1924
Allegheny Briskow
Behind the Criminal
Movie • 1937
Madge
The Splendid Road
Movie • 1925
Sandra De Hault
Sorrell and Son
Movie • 1927
Dora Sorrell
The Luck of the Irish
Movie • 1920
Ruth Warren
The Unknown Man
Movie • 1951
(uncredited)
Winds of Chance
Movie • 1925
Countess Courteau
I Live on Danger
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Sherman
Cynthia
Movie • 1947
Miss Brady, English Teacher
The Secret Heart
Movie • 1946
Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
The World Changes
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Peterson
A Trip to Paramountown
Movie • 1922
Self
Blockade
Movie • 1928
Bess
No Man's Land
Movie • 1918
Katherine Gresham
Fighting Father Dunne
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
Girls' Town
Movie • 1942
Mother Lorraine
Grounds for Marriage
Movie • 1951
Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
The Regeneration
Movie • 1915
Marie Deering
Broadway After Dark
Movie • 1924
Helen Tremaine
The Whip
Movie • 1928
Iris d'Aquila
Easy Pickings
Movie • 1927
Mary Ryan
Souls for Sale
Movie • 1923
Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
The Fire Patrol
Movie • 1924
Mary Ferguson
Prison Farm
Movie • 1938
Matron Ames
Ponjola
Movie • 1923
Lady Flavia Desmond
Cry 'Havoc'
Movie • 1943
Nurse (uncredited)
The 13th Commandment
Movie • 1920
Adam's Rib
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Michael Ramsay
Show Boat
Movie • 1951
Seamstress (uncredited)
The Toll Gate
Movie • 1920
Mary Brown
The Tight Rein
Movie • 1916
Amy
Her Surrender
Movie • 1916
Rhoda Courtlandt
In the Good Old Summertime
Movie • 1949
Woman with Harp (uncredited)
The Man From Home
Movie • 1922
Genevieve Granger-Simpson
Three Live Ghosts
Movie • 1922
Ivis
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Movie • 1917
Mary Norton
An American in Paris
Movie • 1951
Kay Jansen (uncredited)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
Every Girl Should Be Married
Movie • 1948
Saleslady
Headin' for God's Country
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Nilsson
The Darling of the CSA
Movie • 1912
Agnes Lane
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Movie • 1931
Self
Riders of the Timberline
Movie • 1941
Donna Ryan
The Great Diamond Robbery
Movie • 1954
Nurse (uncredited)
Adam's Rib
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
It Had to Be You
Movie • 1947
Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Holstrom
Lonesome Ladies
Movie • 1927
Polly Fosdick
Midnight Lovers
Movie • 1926
Diana Fothergill
Painted People
Movie • 1924
Leslie Carter
The Lotus Eater
Movie • 1921
Madge Vance
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Paula Wales
The Isle of Lost Ships
Movie • 1923
Dorothy Fairfax
Crossroads
Movie • 1942
Madame Deval (uncredited)
The Confederate Ironclad
Movie • 1912
Elinor
Babe Comes Home
Movie • 1927
Vernie
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Elcott
Venus in the East
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
Hello, 'Frisco
Movie • 1924
Anna Q. Nilsson
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Movie • 1919
Carlotta Stanmore
Miss Nobody
Movie • 1926
Barbara Brown
The Greater Glory
Movie • 1926
Fanny
The Masked Woman
Movie • 1927
Diane Delatour
The Side Show of Life
Movie • 1924
Lady Auriol Dayne
The Trail To Yesterday
Movie • 1918
A Sporting Chance
Movie • 1919
Pamela Brent
The Spoilers
Movie • 1923
Cherry Malotte
The People of Värmland
Movie • 1921
The Rustle of Silk
Movie • 1923
Lady Feo
Without Limit
Movie • 1921
Ember Edwards
The 13th Juror
Movie • 1927
Helen Marsden
Too Much Money
Movie • 1926
Annabel Broadley
The Talker
Movie • 1925
Kate Lennox
Inez from Hollywood
Movie • 1924
Inez Laranetta
School for Girls
Movie • 1934
Dr. Anne Galvin
Vanity Pool
Movie • 1918
Carol Harper
Heart of the Sunset
Movie • 1918
Alaire Austin
Pink Gods
Movie • 1922
Lady Margot Cork
Thundering Dawn
Movie • 1923
Mary Rogers
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Virey
Vanity's Price
Movie • 1924
Vanna du Maurier
The Inevitable
Movie • 1917
Florence Grey
The Scarlet Road
Movie • 1916
Betty Belgrave
Why Girls Leave Home
Movie • 1921
Anna Hedder
Over There
Movie • 1917
Bettie Adams
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Movie • 1921
Hearts Aflame
Movie • 1923
Helen Foraker
What Women Will Do
Movie • 1921
Barbara Frietchie
Movie • 1915
Sue Negly
Between Friends
Movie • 1924
Jessica Drene
The Way of the Strong
Movie • 1919
Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
The Breath of Scandal
Movie • 1924
The Moral Code
Movie • 1917
Jean Hyland
The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher
Movie • 1912
Betty - the Girl Telegrapher
Half-a-Dollar Bill
Movie • 1924
The Stranger - Mrs. Webber
A Very Good Young Man
Movie • 1919
Viva Bacchus
Infidelity
Movie • 1917
Elaine Bernard
The Brute Master
Movie • 1920
Madeline Grey
The Figurehead
Movie • 1920
Mary Forbes
One Way Street
Movie • 1925
Lady Sylvia Hutton