Anna Q. Nilsson
Birthday
1888/03/30
Day of death
1974/02/11 (85 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Also know as
Anna Quirentia Nilsson, Annie Nilsson, Anna 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.
Acting
(1950) Sunset Boulevard
as Anna Q. Nilsson
(1920) One Hour Before Dawn
as Ellen Aldrich
(1916) Sold Out
as Leila Austin
(1923) Enemies of Children
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
(1919) Cheating Cheaters
as Grace Palmer
(1918) In Judgment of...
as Mary Manners
(1920) The Fighting Chance
as Sylvia Landis
(1934) The Little Minister
as Villager
(1919) The Love Burglar
as Joan Gray
(1919) Soldiers of Fortune
as Alice Langham
(1925) If I Marry Again
as Alicia Wingate
(1919) Auction of Souls
as ---
(1914) Regeneration
as Katherine Williams
(1914) Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Mignon Mars
(1913) Shenandoah
as Gertrude Illingham
(1913) The Fatal Legacy
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
(1913) A Mississippi Tragedy
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
(1913) Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
(1915) A Sister's Burden
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
(1915) The Siren's Reign
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
(1915) The Destroyer
as Helen Vedrine
(1915) The Haunting Fear
as Diana - an Adventuress
(1923) Hollywood
as Anna Q. Nilsson
(1916) The Supreme Sacrifice
as Helen Chambers
(1920) In the Heart of a Fool
as Margaret Muller
(1915) The Night Operator at Buxton
as Helen
(1924) Flowing Gold
as Allegheny Briskow
(1937) Behind the Criminal
as Madge
(1925) The Splendid Road
as Sandra De Hault
(1927) Sorrell and Son
as Dora Sorrell
(1920) The Luck of the Irish
as Ruth Warren
(1951) The Unknown Man
as ---
(1925) Winds of Chance
as Countess Courteau
(1942) I Live on Danger
as Mrs. Sherman
(1947) Cynthia
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
(1946) The Secret Heart
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
(1933) The World Changes
as Mrs. Peterson
(1922) A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1928) Blockade
as Bess
(1918) No Man's Land
as Katherine Gresham
(1948) Fighting Father Dunne
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
(1942) Girls' Town
as Mother Lorraine
(1951) Grounds for Marriage
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
(1915) The Regeneration
as Marie Deering
(1924) Broadway After Dark
as Helen Tremaine
(1927) Easy Pickings
as Mary Ryan
(1928) The Whip
as Iris d'Aquila
(1923) Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
(1924) The Fire Patrol
as Mary Ferguson
(1938) Prison Farm
as Matron Ames
(1923) Ponjola
as Lady Flavia Desmond
(1943) Cry 'Havoc'
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1920) The 13th Commandment
as ---
(1923) Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
(1951) Show Boat
as Seamstress (uncredited)
(1920) The Toll Gate
as Mary Brown
(1916) The Tight Rein
as Amy
(1916) Her Surrender
as Rhoda Courtlandt
(1949) In the Good Old Summertime
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
(1922) The Man From Home
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
(1922) Three Live Ghosts
as Ivis
(1917) Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Mary Norton
(1951) An American in Paris
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
(1954) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
(1948) Every Girl Should Be Married
as Saleslady
(1943) Headin' for God's Country
as Mrs. Nilsson
(1912) The Darling of the CSA
as Agnes Lane
(1931) Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
as Self
(1941) Riders of the Timberline
as Donna Ryan
(1954) The Great Diamond Robbery
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1949) Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
(1947) It Had to Be You
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
(1947) The Farmer's Daughter
as Mrs. Holstrom
(1927) Lonesome Ladies
as Polly Fosdick
(1921) The Lotus Eater
as Madge Vance
(1924) Painted People
as Leslie Carter
(1926) Midnight Lovers
as Diana Fothergill
(1941) They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
(1941) The Great Man's Lady
as Paula Wales
(1923) The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Fairfax
(1942) Crossroads
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
(1912) The Confederate Ironclad
as Elinor
(1927) Babe Comes Home
as Vernie
(1954) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott
(1919) Venus in the East
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
(1924) Hello, 'Frisco
as Anna Q. Nilsson
(1919) Her Kingdom of Dreams
as Carlotta Stanmore
(1926) Miss Nobody
as Barbara Brown
(1926) The Greater Glory
as Fanny
(1927) The Masked Woman
as Diane Delatour
(1924) The Side Show of Life
as Lady Auriol Dayne
(1918) The Trail To Yesterday
as ---
(1919) A Sporting Chance
as Pamela Brent
(1923) The Spoilers
as Cherry Malotte
(1921) The People of Värmland
as ---
(1923) The Rustle of Silk
as Lady Feo
(1921) Without Limit
as Ember Edwards
(1927) The 13th Juror
as Helen Marsden
(1924) Inez from Hollywood
as Inez Laranetta
(1925) The Talker
as Kate Lennox
(1926) Too Much Money
as Annabel Broadley
(1934) School for Girls
as Dr. Anne Galvin
(1918) Vanity Pool
as Carol Harper
(1918) Heart of the Sunset
as ---
(1922) Pink Gods
as Lady Margot Cork
(1923) Thundering Dawn
as Mary Rogers
(1935) Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Mrs. Virey
(1924) Vanity's Price
as Vanna du Maurier
(1917) The Inevitable
as Florence Grey
(1916) The Scarlet Road
as Betty Belgrave
(1921) Why Girls Leave Home
as Anna Hedder
(1917) Over There
as Bettie Adams
(1921) Ten Nights in a Bar Room
as ---