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.
Movies starring Anna Q. Nilsson (109)
Mrs. Elcott
Nurse (Uncredited)
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Kay Jansen (Uncredited)
Seamstress (Uncredited)
Dowager At Friday Club (Uncredited)
Anna Q. Nilsson
Mrs. Poynter (Uncredited)
Woman With Harp (Uncredited)
Saleslady
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
Saleslady At Hamilton-Cooper (Uncredited)
Miss Brady, English Teacher
Mrs. Holstrom
Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
Nurse (Uncredited)
Mrs. Nilsson
Madame Deval (Uncredited)
Mrs. Sherman
Mother Lorraine
Mrs. Taipe (Uncredited)
Paula Wales
Donna Ryan
Matron Ames
Mrs. Virey
Villager
Dr. Anne Galvin
Mrs. Peterson
Bess
Iris D'aquila
Dora Sorrell
Helen Marsden
Polly Fosdick
Vernie
Mary Ryan
Diane Delatour
Diana Fothergill
Barbara Brown
Annabel Broadley
Sandra De Hault
Countess Courteau
Kate Lennox
Alicia Wingate
Inez Laranetta
Anna Q. Nilsson
Vanna Du Maurier
Mary Ferguson
Lady Auriol Dayne
Helen Tremaine
Allegheny Briskow
Leslie Carter
Patricia - Patsy As An Adult
Mary Rogers
Lady Flavia Desmond
Mrs. Michael Ramsay
Cherry Malotte
Anna Q. Nilsson
Lady Feo
Self - Celebrity Actress (Uncredited)
Dorothy Fairfax
Lady Margot Cork
Genevieve Granger-Simpson
Madge Vance
Anna Hedder
Ember Edwards
Margaret Muller
Sylvia Landis
Ellen Aldrich
Mary Brown
Leila Kip
Ruth Warren
Alice Langham
Carlotta Stanmore
Joan Gray
Pamela Brent
Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
Grace Palmer
Edith Graham
Carol Harper
Mary Manners
Katherine Gresham
Alaire Austin
Mary Norton
Rhoda Courtlandt
Leila Austin
Helen Chambers
Marie Deering
Diana - An Adventuress
Ida - Nathanial's Wife
Helen Vedrine
Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
Mignon Mars
Katherine Williams
Eliza - A Runaway Slave
Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
Gertrude Illingham
Martha Calhoun - The Planter's Daughter
Agnes Lane






