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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

113

Gender

Female

Birthday

1888-03-30

Deathday

1974-02-11 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Also Known As

Anna Quirentia Nilsson
Annie Nilsson
Anna Nilsson

Anna Q. Nilsson

Biography

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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Acting

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
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		Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921		The Lotus Eater as Madge Vance
1921		The People of Värmland
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
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		The Love Burglar as Joan Gray
1919		A Sporting Chance as Pamela Brent
1919		Cheating Cheaters as Grace Palmer
1919		Venus in the East as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
1919		Auction of Souls

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
1918		Heart of the Sunset

1917		Over There as Bettie Adams
1917		Seven Keys to Baldpate as Mary Norton
1917		The Inevitable as Florence Grey

1916		Her Surrender as Rhoda Courtlandt
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

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