Anna Q. Nilsson
Known for: Acting
Born: March 29, 1888 in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden - Died: February 10, 1974
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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Sunset Boulevard
Anna Q. Nilsson
One Hour Before Dawn
Ellen Aldrich
Sold Out
Leila Austin
Enemies of Children
Patricia - Patsy as an adult
Cheating Cheaters
Grace Palmer
In Judgment of...
Mary Manners
The Fighting Chance
Sylvia Landis
The Little Minister
Villager
The Love Burglar
Joan Gray
Soldiers of Fortune
Alice Langham
If I Marry Again
Alicia Wingate
Auction of Souls
Regeneration
Katherine Williams
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Mignon Mars
Shenandoah
Gertrude Illingham
The Fatal Legacy
Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
A Mississippi Tragedy
Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Eliza - a Runaway Slave
The Siren's Reign
Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
The Destroyer
Helen Vedrine
A Sister's Burden
Ida - Nathanial's Wife
The Haunting Fear
Diana - an Adventuress
Hollywood
Anna Q. Nilsson
The Supreme Sacrifice
Helen Chambers