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