Portrait of Anna Q. Nilsson

Anna Q. Nilsson

Acting

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.

Born: March 30, 1888

Place of Birth: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Filmography

1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)

1954
The Great Diamond Robbery

as Nurse (uncredited)

1951
An American in Paris

as Kay Jansen (uncredited)

1951
Show Boat

as Seamstress (uncredited)

1951
Grounds for Marriage

as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)

1950
Sunset Boulevard

as Anna Q. Nilsson

1949
Adam's Rib

as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)

1949
In the Good Old Summertime

as Woman with Harp (uncredited)

1948
Fighting Father Dunne

as Mrs. Olaf Knudson

1947
It Had to Be You

as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)

1947
Cynthia

as Miss Brady, English Teacher

1947
The Farmer's Daughter

as Mrs. Holstrom

1946
The Secret Heart

as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

1943
Cry 'Havoc'

as Nurse (uncredited)

1943
1942
Crossroads

as Madame Deval (uncredited)

1942
I Live on Danger

as Mrs. Sherman

1942
Girls' Town

as Mother Lorraine

1941
They Died with Their Boots On

as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)

1941
The Great Man's Lady

as Paula Wales

1941
1938
Prison Farm

as Matron Ames

1935
1934
1934
School for Girls

as Dr. Anne Galvin

1933
The World Changes

as Mrs. Peterson

1928
Blockade

as Bess

1927
Sorrell and Son

as Dora Sorrell

1927
The 13th Juror

as Helen Marsden

1927
Lonesome Ladies

as Polly Fosdick

1927
1927
The Masked Woman

as Diane Delatour

1926
Midnight Lovers

as Diana Fothergill

1926
Miss Nobody

as Barbara Brown

1926
1926
Too Much Money

as Annabel Broadley

1925
The Splendid Road

as Sandra De Hault

1925
Winds of Chance

as Countess Courteau

1925
The Talker

as Kate Lennox

1925
If I Marry Again

as Alicia Wingate

1924
Inez from Hollywood

as Inez Laranetta

1924
Vanity's Price

as Vanna du Maurier

1924
The Fire Patrol

as Mary Ferguson

1924
The Side Show of Life

as Lady Auriol Dayne

1924
Broadway After Dark

as Helen Tremaine

1924
Between Friends

as Jessica Drene

1924
Flowing Gold

as Allegheny Briskow

1924
Painted People

as Leslie Carter

1923
Thundering Dawn

as Mary Rogers

1923
Ponjola

as Lady Flavia Desmond

1923
Adam's Rib

as Mrs. Michael Ramsay

1923
The Spoilers

as Cherry Malotte

1923
Hollywood

as Anna Q. Nilsson

1923
1923
Souls for Sale

as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

1923
The Isle of Lost Ships

as Dorothy Fairfax

1923
Hearts Aflame

as Helen Foraker

1922
Pink Gods

as Lady Margot Cork

1922
The Man From Home

as Genevieve Granger-Simpson

1921
The Lotus Eater

as Madge Vance

1921
Why Girls Leave Home

as Anna Hedder

1921
Without Limit

as Ember Edwards

1920
In the Heart of a Fool

as Margaret Muller

1920
The Fighting Chance

as Sylvia Landis

1920
One Hour Before Dawn

as Ellen Aldrich

1920
The Toll Gate

as Mary Brown

1920
The Luck of the Irish

as Ruth Warren

1919
Soldiers of Fortune

as Alice Langham

1919
Her Kingdom of Dreams

as Carlotta Stanmore

1919
The Love Burglar

as Joan Gray

1919
A Sporting Chance

as Pamela Brent

1919
The Way of the Strong

as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton

1919
Cheating Cheaters

as Grace Palmer

1919
Venus in the East

as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot

1918
Vanity Pool

as Carol Harper

1917
Over There

as Bettie Adams

1917
1917
The Inevitable

as Florence Grey

1917
The Moral Code

as Jean Hyland

1916
Her Surrender

as Rhoda Courtlandt

1916
Sold Out

as Leila Austin

1916
The Supreme Sacrifice

as Helen Chambers

1916
The Scarlet Road

as Betty Belgrave

1915
Barbara Frietchie

as Sue Negly

1915
The Regeneration

as Marie Deering

1915
The Haunting Fear

as Diana - an Adventuress

1915
A Sister's Burden

as Ida - Nathanial's Wife

1915
The Destroyer

as Helen Vedrine

1915
The Siren's Reign

as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

1914
Regeneration

as Katherine Williams

1913
Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Eliza - a Runaway Slave

1913
The Fatal Legacy

as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

1913
Shenandoah

as Gertrude Illingham

1913
A Mississippi Tragedy

as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

1912
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