Anna Q. Nilsson
Acting
🎂 1888-03-30
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.
Cast credits(115)
Anna Q. Nilsson
1950
Kay Jansen (uncredited)
1951
Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
1954
Mrs. Elcott
1954
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
1948
Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
1946
Seamstress (uncredited)
1951
Sandra De Hault
1925
Madame Deval (uncredited)
1942
Annabel Broadley
1926
Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
1949
Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
1941
Lady Auriol Dayne
1924
Anna Q. Nilsson
1923
Miss Brady, English Teacher
1947
Madge
1937
Villager
1934
Paula Wales
1941
Matron Ames
1938
Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
1919
Saleslady
1948
Nurse (uncredited)
1954
Donna Ryan
1941
Margaret Muller
1920
Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
1951
Inez Laranetta
1924
1951
1921
Kate Lennox
1925
Polly Fosdick
1927
Mary Brown
1920
Fanny
1926
Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
1947
Anna Q. Nilsson
1924
Bess
1928
Self
1922
Helen Chambers
1916
Woman with Harp (uncredited)
1949
Lady Margot Cork
1922
Mary Rogers
1923
Helen Tremaine
1924
Lady Flavia Desmond
1923
Mrs. Holstrom
1947
Nurse (uncredited)
1943
Countess Courteau
1925
Mrs. Nilsson
1943
Sylvia Landis
1920
Dora Sorrell
1927
Mary Ferguson
1924
1921
Allegheny Briskow
1924
Mrs. Sherman
1942
Mrs. Peterson
1933
1921
Cherry Malotte
1923
Patricia - Patsy as an adult
1923
Helen Foraker
1923
Ellen Aldrich
1920
Mary Manners
1918
Mrs. Virey
1935
Leslie Carter
1924
Diana Fothergill
1926
Alice Langham
1919
Mrs. Michael Ramsay
1923
Alicia Wingate
1925
Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
1913
Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
1923
Dr. Anne Galvin
1934
Mary Ryan
1927
Diane Delatour
1927
Gertrude Illingham
1913
Vanna du Maurier
1924
Anna Hedder
1921
Eliza - a Runaway Slave
1913
Agnes Lane
1912
Genevieve Granger-Simpson
1922
Katherine Williams
1914
Self
1931
1918
Dorothy Fairfax
1923
Mother Lorraine
1942
Lady Feo
1923
Helen
1915
Rhoda Courtlandt
1916
Marie Deering
1915
Katherine Gresham
1918
Diana - an Adventuress
1915
Ivis
1922
Ember Edwards
1921
Ida - Nathanial's Wife
1915
Iris d'Aquila
1928
Mignon Mars
1914
Barbara Brown
1926
1919
Joan Gray
1919
Florence Grey
1917
Vernie
1927
Helen Vedrine
1915
Madge Vance
1921
Helen Marsden
1927
Pamela Brent
1919
Ruth Warren
1920
1920
Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
1913
Carlotta Stanmore
1919
Elinor
1912
Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
1915
Mary Norton
1917
1918
Amy
1916
Bettie Adams
1917
Grace Palmer
1919
Carol Harper
1918
Leila Austin
1916
Betty Belgrave
1916