Anna Q. Nilsson
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-03-30
Day of Death
1974-02-11 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
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.
Known For
Acting
(1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
(1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott
(1954)
The Great Diamond Robbery
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1951)
An American in Paris
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
(1951)
Show Boat
as Seamstress (uncredited)
(1951)
(1951)
Grounds for Marriage
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
(1950)
Sunset Boulevard
as Anna Q. Nilsson
(1949)
Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
(1949)
In the Good Old Summertime
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
(1948)
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Saleslady
(1948)
Fighting Father Dunne
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
(1947)
Cynthia
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
(1947)
The Farmer's Daughter
as Mrs. Holstrom
(1947)
It Had to Be You
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
(1946)
The Secret Heart
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
(1943)
Cry 'Havoc'
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1943)
Headin' for God's Country
as Mrs. Nilsson
(1942)
Crossroads
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
(1942)
I Live on Danger
as Mrs. Sherman
(1942)
Girls' Town
as Mother Lorraine
(1941)
They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
(1941)
The Great Man's Lady
as Paula Wales
(1941)
Riders of the Timberline
as Donna Ryan
(1938)
Prison Farm
as Matron Ames
(1937)
Behind the Criminal
as Madge
(1935)
Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Mrs. Virey
(1934)
The Little Minister
as Villager
(1934)
School for Girls
as Dr. Anne Galvin
(1933)
The World Changes
as Mrs. Peterson
(1931)
(1928)
Blockade
as Bess
(1928)
The Whip
as Iris d'Aquila
(1927)
Lonesome Ladies
as Polly Fosdick
(1927)
Sorrell and Son
as Dora Sorrell
(1927)
The 13th Juror
as Helen Marsden
(1927)
Easy Pickings
as Mary Ryan
(1927)
The Masked Woman
as Diane Delatour
(1927)
Babe Comes Home
as Vernie
(1926)
Miss Nobody
as Barbara Brown
(1926)
Midnight Lovers
as Diana Fothergill
(1926)
The Greater Glory
as Fanny
(1926)
Too Much Money
as Annabel Broadley
(1925)
The Talker
as Kate Lennox
(1925)
The Splendid Road
as Sandra De Hault
(1925)
Winds of Chance
as Countess Courteau
(1925)
If I Marry Again
as Alicia Wingate
(1924)
Broadway After Dark
as Helen Tremaine
(1924)
Hello, 'Frisco
as Anna Q. Nilsson
(1924)
The Side Show of Life
as Lady Auriol Dayne
(1924)
Flowing Gold
as Allegheny Briskow
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Inez Laranetta
(1924)
The Fire Patrol
as Mary Ferguson
(1924)
Painted People
as Leslie Carter
(1924)
Vanity's Price
as Vanna du Maurier
(1923)
Hollywood
as Anna Q. Nilsson
(1923)
The Spoilers
as Cherry Malotte
(1923)
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
(1923)
Ponjola
as Lady Flavia Desmond
(1923)
Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
(1923)
Thundering Dawn
as Mary Rogers
(1923)
The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Fairfax
(1923)
The Rustle of Silk
as Lady Feo
(1923)
Enemies of Children
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
(1922)
Pink Gods
as Lady Margot Cork
(1922)
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1922)
Three Live Ghosts
as Ivis
(1922)
The Man From Home
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
(1921)
Without Limit
as Ember Edwards
(1921)
(1921)
The Lotus Eater
as Madge Vance
(1921)
Why Girls Leave Home
as Anna Hedder
(1921)
(1920)
The Luck of the Irish
as Ruth Warren
(1920)
The Toll Gate
as Mary Brown
(1920)
(1920)
One Hour Before Dawn
as Ellen Aldrich
(1920)
The Fighting Chance
as Sylvia Landis
(1920)
In the Heart of a Fool
as Margaret Muller
(1919)
Cheating Cheaters
as Grace Palmer
(1919)
Venus in the East
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
(1919)
Her Kingdom of Dreams
as Carlotta Stanmore
(1919)
The Love Burglar
as Joan Gray
(1919)
A Sporting Chance
as Pamela Brent
(1919)
Soldiers of Fortune
as Alice Langham
(1919)
(1918)
Vanity Pool
as Carol Harper
(1918)
No Man's Land
as Katherine Gresham
(1918)
In Judgment of...
as Mary Manners
(1918)
(1918)
(1917)
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Mary Norton
(1917)
The Inevitable
as Florence Grey
(1917)
Over There
as Bettie Adams
(1916)
Sold Out
as Leila Austin
(1916)
The Supreme Sacrifice
as Helen Chambers
(1916)
Her Surrender
as Rhoda Courtlandt
(1916)
The Tight Rein
as Amy
(1916)
The Scarlet Road
as Betty Belgrave
(1915)
The Regeneration
as Marie Deering
(1915)
The Destroyer
as Helen Vedrine
(1915)
The Siren's Reign
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
(1915)
The Night Operator at Buxton
as Helen
(1915)
The Haunting Fear
as Diana - an Adventuress
(1915)
A Sister's Burden
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
(1914)
Regeneration
as Katherine Williams
(1914)
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Mignon Mars
(1913)
The Fatal Legacy
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
(1913)
A Mississippi Tragedy
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
(1913)
Shenandoah
as Gertrude Illingham
(1913)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
(1912)
The Darling of the CSA
as Agnes Lane
(1912)
The Confederate Ironclad
as Elinor