Anna Q. Nilsson
March 30, 1888 (136 years old) in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
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
Credits
- 1954 · Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
- 1954 · Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as Mrs. Elcott
- 1954 · The Great Diamond Robbery as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1951 · The Unknown Man as
- 1951 · An American in Paris as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
- 1951 · Show Boat as Seamstress (uncredited)
- 1951 · Grounds for Marriage as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
- 1950 · Sunset Boulevard as Anna Q. Nilsson
- 1949 · Adam's Rib as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
- 1949 · In the Good Old Summertime as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
- 1948 · Every Girl Should Be Married as Saleslady
- 1948 · Fighting Father Dunne as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
- 1947 · It Had to Be You as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
- 1947 · Cynthia as Miss Brady, English Teacher
- 1947 · The Farmer's Daughter as Mrs. Holstrom
- 1946 · The Secret Heart as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
- 1943 · Cry 'Havoc' as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1943 · Headin' for God's Country as Mrs. Nilsson
- 1942 · Crossroads as Madame Deval (uncredited)
- 1942 · I Live on Danger as Mrs. Sherman
- 1942 · Girls' Town as Mother Lorraine
- 1941 · They Died with Their Boots On as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
- 1941 · The Great Man's Lady as Paula Wales
- 1941 · Riders of the Timberline as Donna Ryan
- 1938 · Prison Farm as Matron Ames
- 1937 · Behind the Criminal as Madge
- 1935 · Wanderer of the Wasteland as Mrs. Virey
- 1934 · The Little Minister as Villager
- 1934 · School for Girls as Dr. Anne Galvin
- 1933 · The World Changes as Mrs. Peterson
- 1931 · Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! as Self
- 1928 · Blockade as Bess
- 1928 · The Whip as Iris d'Aquila
- 1927 · Sorrell and Son as Dora Sorrell
- 1927 · The 13th Juror as Helen Marsden
- 1927 · Lonesome Ladies as Polly Fosdick
- 1927 · Babe Comes Home as Vernie
- 1927 · Easy Pickings as Mary Ryan
- 1927 · The Masked Woman as Diane Delatour
- 1926 · Midnight Lovers as Diana Fothergill
- 1926 · Miss Nobody as Barbara Brown
- 1926 · The Greater Glory as Fanny
- 1926 · Too Much Money as Annabel Broadley
- 1925 · The Splendid Road as Sandra De Hault
- 1925 · Winds of Chance as Countess Courteau
- 1925 · The Talker as Kate Lennox
- 1925 · If I Marry Again as Alicia Wingate
- 1924 · Inez from Hollywood as Inez Laranetta
- 1924 · Hello, 'Frisco as Anna Q. Nilsson
- 1924 · Vanity's Price as Vanna du Maurier
- 1924 · The Fire Patrol as Mary Ferguson
- 1924 · The Side Show of Life as Lady Auriol Dayne
- 1924 · Broadway After Dark as Helen Tremaine
- 1924 · Flowing Gold as Allegheny Briskow
- 1924 · Painted People as Leslie Carter
- 1923 · Enemies of Children as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
- 1923 · Thundering Dawn as Mary Rogers
- 1923 · Ponjola as Lady Flavia Desmond
- 1923 · Adam's Rib as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
- 1923 · The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- 1923 · Hollywood as Anna Q. Nilsson
- 1923 · The Rustle of Silk as Lady Feo
- 1923 · Souls for Sale as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
- 1923 · The Isle of Lost Ships as Dorothy Fairfax
- 1922 · Pink Gods as Lady Margot Cork
- 1922 · A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- 1922 · The Man From Home as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
- 1922 · Three Live Ghosts as Ivis
- 1921 · The Lotus Eater as Madge Vance
- 1921 · The People of Värmland as
- 1921 · Why Girls Leave Home as Anna Hedder
- 1921 · Without Limit as Ember Edwards
- 1920 · In the Heart of a Fool as Margaret Muller
- 1920 · The Fighting Chance as Sylvia Landis
- 1920 · One Hour Before Dawn as Ellen Aldrich
- 1920 · The Toll Gate as Mary Brown
- 1920 · The 13th Commandment as
- 1920 · The Luck of the Irish as Ruth Warren
- 1919 · Soldiers of Fortune as Alice Langham
- 1919 · Her Kingdom of Dreams as Carlotta Stanmore
- 1919 · A Sporting Chance as Pamela Brent
- 1919 · The Love Burglar as Joan Gray
- 1919 · Venus in the East as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
- 1919 · Cheating Cheaters as Grace Palmer
- 1919 · Ravished Armenia as
- 1918 · Vanity Pool as Carol Harper
- 1918 · In Judgment of... as Mary Manners
- 1918 · No Man's Land as Katherine Gresham
- 1918 · The Trail To Yesterday as
- 1918 · Heart of the Sunset as
- 1917 · Over There as Bettie Adams
- 1917 · Seven Keys to Baldpate as Mary Norton
- 1917 · The Inevitable as Florence Grey
- 1916 · Sold Out as Leila Austin
- 1916 · The Tight Rein as Amy
- 1916 · The Supreme Sacrifice as Helen Chambers
- 1916 · The Scarlet Road as Betty Belgrave
- 1916 · Her Surrender as Rhoda Courtlandt
- 1915 · The Regeneration as Marie Deering
- 1915 · The Haunting Fear as Diana - an Adventuress
- 1915 · A Sister's Burden as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
- 1915 · The Destroyer as Helen Vedrine
- 1915 · The Siren's Reign as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
- 1915 · The Night Operator at Buxton as Helen
- 1914 · Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec as Mignon Mars
- 1914 · Regeneration as Katherine Williams
- 1913 · Uncle Tom's Cabin as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
- 1913 · The Fatal Legacy as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
- 1913 · Shenandoah as Gertrude Illingham
- 1913 · A Mississippi Tragedy as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
- 1912 · The Confederate Ironclad as Elinor
- 1912 · The Darling of the CSA as Agnes Lane