
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