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