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Anna Q. Nilsson

Born: 1888-03-30 in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Died: 1974-02-11

Known For: 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.

Filmography

1954

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
The Great Diamond Robbery as Nurse (uncredited)

1951

Show Boat as Seamstress (uncredited)
An American in Paris as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
The Unknown Man
Grounds for Marriage as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)

1950

Sunset Boulevard as Anna Q. Nilsson

1949

Adam's Rib as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
In the Good Old Summertime as Woman with Harp (uncredited)

1948

Every Girl Should Be Married as Saleslady
Fighting Father Dunne as Mrs. Olaf Knudson

1947

Cynthia as Miss Brady, English Teacher
The Farmer's Daughter as Mrs. Holstrom
It Had to Be You as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)

1946

The Secret Heart as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

1943

Cry 'Havoc' as Nurse (uncredited)
Headin' for God's Country as Mrs. Nilsson

1942

Girls' Town as Mother Lorraine
I Live on Danger as Mrs. Sherman
Crossroads as Madame Deval (uncredited)

1941

The Great Man's Lady as Paula Wales
Riders of the Timberline as Donna Ryan
They Died with Their Boots On as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)

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
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
The Whip as Iris d'Aquila

1927

Lonesome Ladies as Polly Fosdick
The Masked Woman as Diane Delatour
Easy Pickings as Mary Ryan
The 13th Juror as Helen Marsden
Babe Comes Home as Vernie
Sorrell and Son as Dora Sorrell

1926

Miss Nobody as Barbara Brown
The Greater Glory as Fanny
Too Much Money as Annabel Broadley
Midnight Lovers as Diana Fothergill

1925

The Talker as Kate Lennox
If I Marry Again as Alicia Wingate
Winds of Chance as Countess Courteau
The Splendid Road as Sandra De Hault

1924

Hello, 'Frisco as Anna Q. Nilsson
Flowing Gold as Allegheny Briskow
Painted People as Leslie Carter
The Fire Patrol as Mary Ferguson
Broadway After Dark as Helen Tremaine
The Side Show of Life as Lady Auriol Dayne
Between Friends as Jessica Drene
Inez from Hollywood as Inez Laranetta
Vanity's Price as Vanna du Maurier

1923

Hollywood as Anna Q. Nilsson
Hearts Aflame as Helen Foraker
The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
Ponjola as Lady Flavia Desmond
Adam's Rib as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
The Rustle of Silk as Lady Feo
Souls for Sale as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
The Isle of Lost Ships as Dorothy Fairfax
Thundering Dawn as Mary Rogers
Enemies of Children as Patricia - Patsy as an adult

1922

Three Live Ghosts as Ivis
The Man From Home as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
A Trip to Paramountown as Self
Pink Gods as Lady Margot Cork

1921

1920

The Fighting Chance as Sylvia Landis
The Toll Gate as Mary Brown
The Luck of the Irish as Ruth Warren
One Hour Before Dawn as Ellen Aldrich
The 13th Commandment
In the Heart of a Fool as Margaret Muller

1919

Soldiers of Fortune as Alice Langham
Her Kingdom of Dreams as Carlotta Stanmore
Auction of Souls
The Love Burglar as Joan Gray
Venus in the East as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
A Sporting Chance as Pamela Brent
Cheating Cheaters as Grace Palmer
The Way of the Strong as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton

1918

No Man's Land as Katherine Gresham
In Judgment of... as Mary Manners
Vanity Pool as Carol Harper
The Trail To Yesterday
Heart of the Sunset

1917

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

1916

Her Surrender as Rhoda Courtlandt
Sold Out as Leila Austin
The Supreme Sacrifice as Helen Chambers
The Tight Rein as Amy
The Scarlet Road as Betty Belgrave

1915

The Regeneration as Marie Deering
The Siren's Reign as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
A Sister's Burden as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
The Night Operator at Buxton as Helen
Barbara Frietchie as Sue Negly
The Haunting Fear as Diana - an Adventuress
The Destroyer as Helen Vedrine

1914

Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec as Mignon Mars
Regeneration as Katherine Williams

1913

Shenandoah as Gertrude Illingham
The Fatal Legacy as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
A Mississippi Tragedy as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

1912

The Confederate Ironclad as Elinor
The Darling of the CSA as Agnes Lane