Anna Q. Nilsson

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.

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Movies starring Anna Q. Nilsson (109)

An American in Paris (1951)

Kay Jansen (Uncredited)

Show Boat (1951)

Seamstress (Uncredited)

Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Dowager At Friday Club (Uncredited)

Adam's Rib (1949)

Mrs. Poynter (Uncredited)

In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

Woman With Harp (Uncredited)

It Had to Be You (1947)

Saleslady At Hamilton-Cooper (Uncredited)

Cynthia (1947)

Miss Brady, English Teacher

The Secret Heart (1946)

Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

Cry 'Havoc' (1943)

Nurse (Uncredited)

Crossroads (1942)

Madame Deval (Uncredited)

Girls' Town (1942)

Mother Lorraine

The Whip (1928)

Iris D'aquila

Midnight Lovers (1926)

Diana Fothergill

Miss Nobody (1926)

Barbara Brown

Too Much Money (1926)

Annabel Broadley

Winds of Chance (1925)

Countess Courteau

Hello, 'Frisco (1924)

Anna Q. Nilsson

Vanity's Price (1924)

Vanna Du Maurier

Flowing Gold (1924)

Allegheny Briskow

Enemies of Children (1923)

Patricia - Patsy As An Adult

Ponjola (1923)

Lady Flavia Desmond

Adam's Rib (1923)

Mrs. Michael Ramsay

The Spoilers (1923)

Cherry Malotte

Hollywood (1923)

Anna Q. Nilsson

Souls for Sale (1923)

Self - Celebrity Actress (Uncredited)

Pink Gods (1922)

Lady Margot Cork

The Man From Home (1922)

Genevieve Granger-Simpson

Venus in the East (1919)

Mrs. Pat Dyvenot

Vanity Pool (1918)

Carol Harper

No Man's Land (1918)

Katherine Gresham

Her Surrender (1916)

Rhoda Courtlandt

Sold Out (1916)

Leila Austin

The Haunting Fear (1915)

Diana - An Adventuress

A Sister's Burden (1915)

Ida - Nathanial's Wife

The Siren's Reign (1915)

Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

Regeneration (1914)

Katherine Williams

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)

Eliza - A Runaway Slave

The Fatal Legacy (1913)

Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

Shenandoah (1913)

Gertrude Illingham

A Mississippi Tragedy (1913)

Martha Calhoun - The Planter's Daughter

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Same first name: Anna

Same surname: Nilsson