Anna Q. Nilsson
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.

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Roles

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

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