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.
127 acting credits
Acting · 127
Sunset Boulevard
1950
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
An American in Paris
1951
Adam's Rib
1949
Show Boat
1951
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
It Had to Be You
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
Cry 'Havoc'
1943
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
The Secret Heart
1946
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
Hollywood
1923
In the Good Old Summertime
1949
The Regeneration
1915
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935
Riders of the Timberline
1941
The World Changes
1933
Souls for Sale
1923
The Spoilers
1923
The Unknown Man
1951
Prison Farm
1938
The Greater Glory
1926
Fighting Father Dunne
1948
Cynthia
1947
Painted People
1924
The Talker
1925
The Little Minister
1934
Crossroads
1942
Her Surrender
1916
Sold Out
1916
Why Girls Leave Home
1921
Pink Gods
1922
The Great Man's Lady
1941
The Rustle of Silk
1923
Easy Pickings
1927
The Isle of Lost Ships
1923
Regeneration
1914
Grounds for Marriage
1951
Thundering Dawn
1923
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
Girls' Town
1942
The People of Värmland
1921
Three Live Ghosts
1922
Midnight Lovers
1926
Cheating Cheaters
1919
I Live on Danger
1942
Winds of Chance
1925
Inez from Hollywood
1924
School for Girls
1934
Too Much Money
1926
Headin' for God's Country
1943
Adam's Rib
1923
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
Lonesome Ladies
1927
The Brute Master
1920
Sorrell and Son
1927
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
A Sister's Burden
1915
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1917
In the Heart of a Fool
1920
Enemies of Children
1923
Soldiers of Fortune
1919
The 13th Juror
1927
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
1931
The Fatal Legacy
1913
If I Marry Again
1925
The Moral Code
1917
The Supreme Sacrifice
1916
The Figurehead
1920
Flowing Gold
1924
A Very Good Young Man
1919
The Fighting Chance
1920
The 13th Commandment
1920
Ponjola
1923
The Destroyer
1915
Miss Nobody
1926
Venus in the East
1919
The Splendid Road
1925
Vanity's Price
1924
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1913
The Luck of the Irish
1920
The Whip
1928
Broadway After Dark
1924
The Night Operator at Buxton
1915
The Haunting Fear
1915
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914
The Darling of the CSA
1912
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919
The Masked Woman
1927
The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher
1912
The Man From Home
1922
Between Friends
1924
One Hour Before Dawn
1920
Vanity Pool
1918
Over There
1917
Hearts Aflame
1923
The Tight Rein
1916
Blockade
1928
The Lotus Eater
1921
Without Limit
1921
No Man's Land
1918
The Way of the Strong
1919
A Sporting Chance
1919
The Siren's Reign
1915
Half-a-Dollar Bill
1924
Barbara Frietchie
1915
The Toll Gate
1920
Shenandoah
1913
The Love Burglar
1919
Behind the Criminal
1937
The Scarlet Road
1916
What Women Will Do
1921
The Trail To Yesterday
1918
Babe Comes Home
1927
Heart of the Sunset
1918
The Fire Patrol
1924
One Way Street
1925
The Confederate Ironclad
1912
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
The Inevitable
1917
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921
In Judgment of...
1918
Infidelity
1917
Auction of Souls
1919
The Breath of Scandal
1924
The Side Show of Life
1924