Anna Q. Nilsson
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-03-30 (86 years old)
Deathday
1974-02-11
Place of Birth
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Also known As
Anna Quirentia Nilsson
Annie Nilsson
Anna Nilsson
Anna Q. Nilsson
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.
Acting
1950
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1920
as Ellen Aldrich
1916
as Leila Austin
1923
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
1919
as Grace Palmer
1918
as Mary Manners
1920
as Sylvia Landis
1934
as Villager
1919
as Joan Gray
1919
as Alice Langham
1925
as Alicia Wingate
1919
1914
as Katherine Williams
1914
as Mignon Mars
1913
as Gertrude Illingham
1913
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
1913
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
1913
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
1915
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
1915
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
1915
as Helen Vedrine
1915
as Diana - an Adventuress
1923
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1916
as Helen Chambers
1920
as Margaret Muller
1915
as Helen
1924
as Allegheny Briskow
1937
as Madge
1925
as Sandra De Hault
1927
as Dora Sorrell
1920
as Ruth Warren
1951
1925
as Countess Courteau
1942
as Mrs. Sherman
1947
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
1946
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
1933
as Mrs. Peterson
1922
as Self
1928
as Bess
1918
as Katherine Gresham
1948
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
1942
as Mother Lorraine
1951
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
1915
as Marie Deering
1924
as Helen Tremaine
1927
as Mary Ryan
1928
as Iris d'Aquila
1923
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
1924
as Mary Ferguson
1938
as Matron Ames
1923
as Lady Flavia Desmond
1943
as Nurse (uncredited)
1923
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
1951
as Seamstress (uncredited)
1920
as Mary Brown
1916
as Amy
1916
as Rhoda Courtlandt
1949
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
1922
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
1922
as Ivis
1917
as Mary Norton
1951
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
1954
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
1948
as Saleslady
1943
as Mrs. Nilsson
1912
as Agnes Lane
1931
1941
as Donna Ryan
1954
as Nurse (uncredited)
1949
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
1947
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
1947
as Mrs. Holstrom
1927
as Polly Fosdick
1921
as Madge Vance
1924
as Leslie Carter
1926
as Diana Fothergill
1941
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
1941
as Paula Wales
1923
as Dorothy Fairfax
1942
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
1912
as Elinor
1927
as Vernie
1954
as Mrs. Elcott
1919
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
1924
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1919
as Carlotta Stanmore
1926
as Barbara Brown
1926
as Fanny
1927
as Diane Delatour
1924
as Lady Auriol Dayne
1919
as Pamela Brent
1923
as Cherry Malotte
1923
as Lady Feo
1921
as Ember Edwards
1927
as Helen Marsden
1924
as Inez Laranetta
1925
as Kate Lennox
1926
as Annabel Broadley
1934
as Dr. Anne Galvin
1918
as Carol Harper
1922
as Lady Margot Cork
1923
as Mary Rogers
1935
as Mrs. Virey
1924
as Vanna du Maurier
1917
as Florence Grey
1916
as Betty Belgrave
1921
as Anna Hedder
1917
as Bettie Adams
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