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 (127 Appearances)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1954

The Great Diamond Robbery

1954

The Unknown Man

1951

An American in Paris

1951

Show Boat

1951

Grounds for Marriage

1951

Sunset Boulevard

1950

Adam's Rib

1949

In the Good Old Summertime

1949

Every Girl Should Be Married

1948

The Boy with Green Hair

1948

Fighting Father Dunne

1948

It Had to Be You

1947

Cynthia

1947

The Farmer's Daughter

1947

The Secret Heart

1946

Cry 'Havoc'

1943

Headin' for God's Country

1943

Crossroads

1942

I Live on Danger

1942

Girls' Town

1942

They Died with Their Boots On

1941

The Great Man's Lady

1941

Riders of the Timberline

1941

Prison Farm

1938

Behind the Criminal

1937

Wanderer of the Wasteland

1935

The Little Minister

1934

School for Girls

1934

The World Changes

1933

Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!

1931

Blockade

1928

The Whip

1928

Sorrell and Son

1927

The 13th Juror

1927

Lonesome Ladies

1927

Babe Comes Home

1927

Easy Pickings

1927

The Masked Woman

1927

Midnight Lovers

1926

Miss Nobody

1926

The Greater Glory

1926

Too Much Money

1926

The Splendid Road

1925

Winds of Chance

1925

The Talker

1925

One Way Street

1925

If I Marry Again

1925

Inez from Hollywood

1924

Hello, 'Frisco

1924

Vanity's Price

1924

The Breath of Scandal

1924

The Fire Patrol

1924

The Side Show of Life

1924

Broadway After Dark

1924

Between Friends

1924

Flowing Gold

1924

Painted People

1924

Half-a-Dollar Bill

1924

Enemies of Children

1923

Thundering Dawn

1923

Ponjola

1923

Adam's Rib

1923

The Spoilers

1923

Hollywood

1923

The Rustle of Silk

1923

Souls for Sale

1923

The Isle of Lost Ships

1923

Hearts Aflame

1923

Pink Gods

1922

A Trip to Paramountown

1922

The Man From Home

1922

Three Live Ghosts

1922

Ten Nights in a Bar Room

1921

The Lotus Eater

1921

The People of Värmland

1921

Why Girls Leave Home

1921

Without Limit

1921

What Women Will Do

1921

The Brute Master

1920

In the Heart of a Fool

1920

The Fighting Chance

1920

One Hour Before Dawn

1920

The Figurehead

1920

The Toll Gate

1920

The 13th Commandment

1920

The Luck of the Irish

1920

Soldiers of Fortune

1919

Her Kingdom of Dreams

1919

A Sporting Chance

1919

The Love Burglar

1919

A Very Good Young Man

1919

The Way of the Strong

1919

Cheating Cheaters

1919

Venus in the East

1919

Auction of Souls

1919

Vanity Pool

1918

In Judgment of...

1918

No Man's Land

1918

The Trail To Yesterday

1918

Heart of the Sunset

1918

Over There

1917

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1917

The Inevitable

1917

The Moral Code

1917

Infidelity

1917

Her Surrender

1916

Sold Out

1916

The Tight Rein

1916

The Supreme Sacrifice

1916

The Scarlet Road

1916

Barbara Frietchie

1915

The Regeneration

1915

The Haunting Fear

1915

A Sister's Burden

1915

The Destroyer

1915

The Siren's Reign

1915

The Night Operator at Buxton

1915

Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec

1914

Regeneration

1914

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1913

The Fatal Legacy

1913

Shenandoah

1913

A Mississippi Tragedy

1913

The Confederate Ironclad

1912

The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher

1912

The Darling of the CSA

1912 Debut
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