Birthday:
Mar 30, 1888
Place of Birth: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Place of Birth: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Sunset Boulevard | Anna Q. Nilsson | 1950 |
| One Hour Before Dawn | Ellen Aldrich | 1920 |
| Sold Out | Leila Austin | 1916 |
| Enemies of Children | Patricia - Patsy as an adult | 1923 |
| Cheating Cheaters | Grace Palmer | 1919 |
| In Judgment of... | Mary Manners | 1918 |
| The Fighting Chance | Sylvia Landis | 1920 |
| The Little Minister | Villager | 1934 |
| The Love Burglar | Joan Gray | 1919 |
| Soldiers of Fortune | Alice Langham | 1919 |
| If I Marry Again | Alicia Wingate | 1925 |
| Ravished Armenia | 1919 | |
| Regeneration | Katherine Williams | 1914 |
| Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec | Mignon Mars | 1914 |
| Shenandoah | Gertrude Illingham | 1913 |
| The Fatal Legacy | Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife | 1913 |
| A Mississippi Tragedy | Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter | 1913 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Eliza - a Runaway Slave | 1913 |
| The Siren's Reign | Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman | 1915 |
| The Destroyer | Helen Vedrine | 1915 |
| A Sister's Burden | Ida - Nathanial's Wife | 1915 |
| The Haunting Fear | Diana - an Adventuress | 1915 |
| Hollywood | Anna Q. Nilsson | 1923 |
| The Supreme Sacrifice | Helen Chambers | 1916 |
| In the Heart of a Fool | Margaret Muller | 1920 |
| The Night Operator at Buxton | Helen | 1915 |
| Flowing Gold | Allegheny Briskow | 1924 |
| Behind the Criminal | Madge | 1937 |
| The Splendid Road | Sandra De Hault | 1925 |
| Sorrell and Son | Dora Sorrell | 1927 |
| The Luck of the Irish | Ruth Warren | 1920 |
| The Unknown Man | 1951 | |
| Winds of Chance | Countess Courteau | 1925 |
| I Live on Danger | Mrs. Sherman | 1942 |
| Cynthia | Miss Brady, English Teacher | 1947 |
| The Secret Heart | Dr. Rossiger's Secretary | 1946 |
| The World Changes | Mrs. Peterson | 1933 |
| A Trip to Paramountown | Self | 1922 |
| Blockade | Bess | 1928 |
| No Man's Land | Katherine Gresham | 1918 |
| Fighting Father Dunne | Mrs. Olaf Knudson | 1948 |
| Girls' Town | Mother Lorraine | 1942 |
| Grounds for Marriage | Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited) | 1951 |
| The Regeneration | Marie Deering | 1915 |
| Broadway After Dark | Helen Tremaine | 1924 |
| The Whip | Iris d'Aquila | 1928 |
| Easy Pickings | Mary Ryan | 1927 |
| Souls for Sale | Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) | 1923 |
| The Fire Patrol | Mary Ferguson | 1924 |
| Prison Farm | Matron Ames | 1938 |
| Ponjola | Lady Flavia Desmond | 1923 |
| Cry 'Havoc' | Nurse (uncredited) | 1943 |
| The 13th Commandment | 1920 | |
| Adam's Rib | Mrs. Michael Ramsay | 1923 |
| Show Boat | Seamstress (uncredited) | 1951 |
| The Toll Gate | Mary Brown | 1920 |
| The Tight Rein | Amy | 1916 |
| Her Surrender | Rhoda Courtlandt | 1916 |
| In the Good Old Summertime | Woman with Harp (uncredited) | 1949 |
| The Man From Home | Genevieve Granger-Simpson | 1922 |
| Three Live Ghosts | Ivis | 1922 |
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mary Norton | 1917 |
| An American in Paris | Kay Jansen (uncredited) | 1951 |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mrs. Elcott (uncredited) | 1954 |
| Every Girl Should Be Married | Saleslady | 1948 |
| Headin' for God's Country | Mrs. Nilsson | 1943 |
| The Darling of the CSA | Agnes Lane | 1912 |
| Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! | Self | 1931 |
| Riders of the Timberline | Donna Ryan | 1941 |
| The Great Diamond Robbery | Nurse (uncredited) | 1954 |
| Adam's Rib | Mrs. Poynter (uncredited) | 1949 |
| It Had to Be You | Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited) | 1947 |
| The Farmer's Daughter | Mrs. Holstrom | 1947 |
| Lonesome Ladies | Polly Fosdick | 1927 |
| Midnight Lovers | Diana Fothergill | 1926 |
| Painted People | Leslie Carter | 1924 |
| The Lotus Eater | Madge Vance | 1921 |
| They Died with Their Boots On | Mrs. Taipe (uncredited) | 1941 |
| The Great Man's Lady | Paula Wales | 1941 |
| The Isle of Lost Ships | Dorothy Fairfax | 1923 |
| Crossroads | Madame Deval (uncredited) | 1942 |
| The Confederate Ironclad | Elinor | 1912 |
| Babe Comes Home | Vernie | 1927 |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mrs. Elcott | 1954 |
| Venus in the East | Mrs. Pat Dyvenot | 1919 |
| Hello, 'Frisco | Anna Q. Nilsson | 1924 |
| Her Kingdom of Dreams | Carlotta Stanmore | 1919 |
| Miss Nobody | Barbara Brown | 1926 |
| The Greater Glory | Fanny | 1926 |
| The Masked Woman | Diane Delatour | 1927 |
| The Side Show of Life | Lady Auriol Dayne | 1924 |
| The Trail To Yesterday | 1918 | |
| A Sporting Chance | Pamela Brent | 1919 |
| The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte | 1923 |
| The People of Värmland | 1921 | |
| The Rustle of Silk | Lady Feo | 1923 |
| Without Limit | Ember Edwards | 1921 |
| The 13th Juror | Helen Marsden | 1927 |
| Too Much Money | Annabel Broadley | 1926 |
| The Talker | Kate Lennox | 1925 |
| Inez from Hollywood | Inez Laranetta | 1924 |
| School for Girls | Dr. Anne Galvin | 1934 |
| Vanity Pool | Carol Harper | 1918 |
| Heart of the Sunset | 1918 | |
| Pink Gods | Lady Margot Cork | 1922 |
| Thundering Dawn | Mary Rogers | 1923 |
| Wanderer of the Wasteland | Mrs. Virey | 1935 |
| Vanity's Price | Vanna du Maurier | 1924 |
| The Inevitable | Florence Grey | 1917 |
| The Scarlet Road | Betty Belgrave | 1916 |
| Why Girls Leave Home | Anna Hedder | 1921 |
| Over There | Bettie Adams | 1917 | Series | Cast | Year |
