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. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.
Filmography · 121
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Anna Q. Nilsson
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · Mrs. Elcott (uncredite...
Shenandoah
1913 · Gertrude Illingham
An American in Paris
1951 · Kay Jansen (uncredited...
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Mrs. Taipe (uncredited...
Show Boat
1951 · Seamstress (uncredited...
The Figurehead
1920 · Mary Forbes
Adam's Rib
1949 · Mrs. Poynter (uncredit...
In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · Woman with Harp (uncre...
The Inevitable
1917 · Florence Grey
School for Girls
1934 · Dr. Anne Galvin
Infidelity
1917 · Elaine Bernard
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · Mrs. Holstrom
Crossroads
1942 · Madame Deval (uncredit...
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · Nurse (uncredited)
Her Surrender
1916 · Rhoda Courtlandt
Hollywood
1923 · Anna Q. Nilsson
Painted People
1924 · Leslie Carter
Cheating Cheaters
1919 · Grace Palmer
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1913 · Eliza - a Runaway Slav...
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · Saleslady
Without Limit
1921 · Ember Edwards
Sorrell and Son
1927 · Dora Sorrell
Half-a-Dollar Bill
1924 · The Stranger - Mrs. We...
The Unknown Man
1951 · (uncredited)
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921
Souls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actre...
Vanity Pool
1918 · Carol Harper
It Had to Be You
1947 · Saleslady at Hamilton-...
A Sporting Chance
1919 · Pamela Brent
Grounds for Marriage
1951 · Dowager at Friday Club...
Fighting Father Dunne
1948 · Mrs. Olaf Knudson
Babe Comes Home
1927 · Vernie
Blockade
1928 · Bess
The Moral Code
1917 · Jean Hyland
The Luck of the Irish
1920 · Ruth Warren
The Great Man's Lady
1941 · Paula Wales
The Breath of Scandal
1924 · Anna
The Night Operator at Buxton
1915 · Helen
One Way Street
1925 · Lady Sylvia Hutton
The World Changes
1933 · Mrs. Peterson
Prison Farm
1938 · Matron Ames
Auction of Souls
1919 · Edith Graham
The Way of the Strong
1919 · Audrie Hendrie / Monic...
The Little Minister
1934 · Villager
The Greater Glory
1926 · Fanny
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954 · Nurse (uncredited)
A Very Good Young Man
1919 · Viva Bacchus
The Secret Heart
1946 · Dr. Rossiger's Secreta...
Cynthia
1947 · Miss Brady, English Te...
The Darling of the CSA
1912 · Agnes Lane
I Live on Danger
1942 · Mrs. Sherman
One Hour Before Dawn
1920 · Ellen Aldrich
The Confederate Ironclad
1912 · Elinor
The Man From Home
1922 · Genevieve Granger-Simp...
Pink Gods
1922 · Lady Margot Cork
The Brute Master
1920 · Madeline Grey
The Scarlet Road
1916 · Betty Belgrave
The Siren's Reign
1915 · Marguerite Morrison -...
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919 · Carlotta Stanmore
Winds of Chance
1925 · Countess Courteau
Inez from Hollywood
1924 · Inez Laranetta
Three Live Ghosts
1922 · Ivis
A Sister's Burden
1915 · Ida - Nathanial's Wife
The 13th Commandment
1920 · Leila Kip
The Lotus Eater
1921 · Madge Vance
Venus in the East
1919 · Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
Broadway After Dark
1924 · Helen Tremaine
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935 · Mrs. Virey
The Fire Patrol
1924 · Mary Ferguson
The Regeneration
1915 · Marie Deering
Miss Nobody
1926 · Barbara Brown
The Masked Woman
1927 · Diane Delatour
The Splendid Road
1925 · Sandra De Hault
The Spoilers
1923 · Cherry Malotte
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Self
Midnight Lovers
1926 · Diana Fothergill
What Women Will Do
1921 · Lily Gibbs
The Talker
1925 · Kate Lennox
Enemies of Children
1923 · Patricia - Patsy as an...
Ponjola
1923 · Lady Flavia Desmond
The 13th Juror
1927 · Helen Marsden
The Toll Gate
1920 · Mary Brown
Over There
1917 · Bettie Adams
Too Much Money
1926 · Annabel Broadley
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1917 · Mary Norton
Headin' for God's Country
1943 · Mrs. Nilsson
Between Friends
1924 · Jessica Drene
Riders of the Timberline
1941 · Donna Ryan
The Fighting Chance
1920 · Sylvia Landis
Why Girls Leave Home
1921 · Anna Hedder
In the Heart of a Fool
1920 · Margaret Muller
Girls' Town
1942 · Mother Lorraine
The Rustle of Silk
1923 · Lady Feo
Soldiers of Fortune
1919 · Alice Langham
The Love Burglar
1919 · Joan Gray
Thundering Dawn
1923 · Mary Rogers
Hearts Aflame
1923 · Helen Foraker
The Side Show of Life
1924 · Lady Auriol Dayne
If I Marry Again
1925 · Alicia Wingate
Adam's Rib
1923 · Mrs. Michael Ramsay
The Whip
1928 · Iris d'Aquila
Flowing Gold
1924 · Allegheny Briskow
The Isle of Lost Ships
1923 · Dorothy Fairfax
Sold Out
1916 · Leila Austin
The People of Värmland
1921 · Anna
The Fatal Legacy
1913 · Anna Halleck - Harry's...
Regeneration
1914 · Katherine Williams
Lonesome Ladies
1927 · Polly Fosdick
Behind the Criminal
1937 · Madge
The Destroyer
1915 · Helen Vedrine
Barbara Frietchie
1915 · Sue Negly
No Man's Land
1918 · Katherine Gresham
The Haunting Fear
1915 · Diana - an Adventuress
The Trail To Yesterday
1918
Heart of the Sunset
1918 · Alaire Austin
The Supreme Sacrifice
1916 · Helen Chambers
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914 · Mignon Mars
Vanity's Price
1924 · Vanna du Maurier
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913 · Martha Calhoun - the P...