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