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