Anna Q. Nilsson
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Anna Q. Nilsson

Mar 30, 1888 - 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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Movie1950Sunset BoulevardAnna Q. Nilsson
Movie1920One Hour Before DawnEllen Aldrich
Movie1916Sold OutLeila Austin
Movie1923Enemies of ChildrenPatricia - Patsy as an adult
Movie1919Cheating CheatersGrace Palmer
Movie1918In Judgment of...Mary Manners
Movie1920The Fighting ChanceSylvia Landis
Movie1934The Little MinisterVillager
Movie1919Soldiers of FortuneAlice Langham
Movie1919The Love BurglarJoan Gray
Movie1925If I Marry AgainAlicia Wingate
Movie1919Auction of Souls
Movie1914RegenerationKatherine Williams
Movie1914Wolfe or the Conquest of QuebecMignon Mars
Movie1913ShenandoahGertrude Illingham
Movie1913The Fatal LegacyAnna Halleck - Harry's Wife
Movie1913A Mississippi TragedyMartha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
Movie1913Uncle Tom's CabinEliza - a Runaway Slave
Movie1915The Siren's ReignMarguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
Movie1915The DestroyerHelen Vedrine
Movie1915The Haunting FearDiana - an Adventuress
Movie1915A Sister's BurdenIda - Nathanial's Wife
Movie1923HollywoodAnna Q. Nilsson
Movie1916The Supreme SacrificeHelen Chambers
Movie1920In the Heart of a FoolMargaret Muller
Movie1915The Night Operator at BuxtonHelen
Movie1924Flowing GoldAllegheny Briskow
Movie1937Behind the CriminalMadge
Movie1925The Splendid RoadSandra De Hault
Movie1927Sorrell and SonDora Sorrell
Movie1920The Luck of the IrishRuth Warren
Movie1951The Unknown Man
Movie1925Winds of ChanceCountess Courteau
Movie1942I Live on DangerMrs. Sherman
Movie1947CynthiaMiss Brady, English Teacher
Movie1946The Secret HeartDr. Rossiger's Secretary
Movie1933The World ChangesMrs. Peterson
Movie1922A Trip to ParamountownSelf
Movie1928BlockadeBess
Movie1918No Man's LandKatherine Gresham
Movie1948Fighting Father DunneMrs. Olaf Knudson
Movie1942Girls' TownMother Lorraine
Movie1951Grounds for MarriageDowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
Movie1915The RegenerationMarie Deering
Movie1924Broadway After DarkHelen Tremaine
Movie1928The WhipIris d'Aquila
Movie1927Easy PickingsMary Ryan
Movie1923Souls for SaleSelf - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Movie1924The Fire PatrolMary Ferguson
Movie1938Prison FarmMatron Ames
Movie1923PonjolaLady Flavia Desmond
Movie1943Cry 'Havoc'Nurse (uncredited)
Movie1920The 13th Commandment
Movie1923Adam's RibMrs. Michael Ramsay
Movie1951Show BoatSeamstress (uncredited)
Movie1920The Toll GateMary Brown
Movie1916The Tight ReinAmy
Movie1916Her SurrenderRhoda Courtlandt
Movie1949In the Good Old SummertimeWoman with Harp (uncredited)
Movie1922Three Live GhostsIvis
Movie1922The Man From HomeGenevieve Granger-Simpson
Movie1917Seven Keys to BaldpateMary Norton
Movie1951An American in ParisKay Jansen (uncredited)
Movie1954Seven Brides for Seven BrothersMrs. Elcott (uncredited)
Movie1948Every Girl Should Be MarriedSaleslady
Movie1943Headin' for God's CountryMrs. Nilsson
Movie1912The Darling of the CSAAgnes Lane
Movie1931Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!Self
Movie1941Riders of the TimberlineDonna Ryan
Movie1954The Great Diamond RobberyNurse (uncredited)
Movie1949Adam's RibMrs. Poynter (uncredited)
Movie1947It Had to Be YouSaleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
Movie1947The Farmer's DaughterMrs. Holstrom
Movie1927Lonesome LadiesPolly Fosdick
Movie1924Painted PeopleLeslie Carter
Movie1926Midnight LoversDiana Fothergill
Movie1921The Lotus EaterMadge Vance
Movie1941They Died with Their Boots OnMrs. Taipe (uncredited)
Movie1941The Great Man's LadyPaula Wales
Movie1923The Isle of Lost ShipsDorothy Fairfax
Movie1942CrossroadsMadame Deval (uncredited)
Movie1912The Confederate IroncladElinor
Movie1927Babe Comes HomeVernie
Movie1954Seven Brides for Seven BrothersMrs. Elcott
Movie1919Venus in the EastMrs. Pat Dyvenot
Movie1924Hello, 'FriscoAnna Q. Nilsson
Movie1919Her Kingdom of DreamsCarlotta Stanmore
Movie1926Miss NobodyBarbara Brown
Movie1926The Greater GloryFanny
Movie1927The Masked WomanDiane Delatour
Movie1924The Side Show of LifeLady Auriol Dayne
Movie1918The Trail To Yesterday
Movie1919A Sporting ChancePamela Brent
Movie1923The SpoilersCherry Malotte
Movie1921The People of Värmland
Movie1923The Rustle of SilkLady Feo
Movie1921Without LimitEmber Edwards
Movie1927The 13th JurorHelen Marsden
Movie1924Inez from HollywoodInez Laranetta
Movie1926Too Much MoneyAnnabel Broadley
Movie1925The TalkerKate Lennox
Movie1934School for GirlsDr. Anne Galvin
Movie1918Vanity PoolCarol Harper
Movie1918Heart of the Sunset
Movie1922Pink GodsLady Margot Cork
Movie1923Thundering DawnMary Rogers
Movie1935Wanderer of the WastelandMrs. Virey
Movie1924Vanity's PriceVanna du Maurier
Movie1917The InevitableFlorence Grey
Movie1916The Scarlet RoadBetty Belgrave
Movie1921Why Girls Leave HomeAnna Hedder
Movie1917Over ThereBettie Adams
Movie1921Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Movie1923Hearts AflameHelen Foraker

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