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