Anna Q. Nilsson
124 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 30, 1888
- Died
- Feb 11, 1974 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
- Also known as
- Anna Quirentia Nilsson · Annie Nilsson · Anna Nilsson · Анна Нильсен
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 8.3 Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Film
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★ 7.0 An American in Paris
1951 · Film
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★ 7.1 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · Film
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★ 7.1 Adam's Rib
1949 · Film
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★ 6.7 They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Film
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★ 6.2 Show Boat
1951 · Film
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★ 6.2 The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · Film
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★ 6.8 The Regeneration
1915 · Film
Anna Q. Nilsson: movies and TV shows
Acting (124)
- 1954 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited) / Mrs. Elcott
- 1954 The Great Diamond Robbery
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1951 The Unknown Man
as (uncredited)
- 1951 An American in Paris
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
- 1951 Show Boat
as Seamstress (uncredited)
- 1951 Grounds for Marriage
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
- 1950 Sunset Boulevard
as Anna Q. Nilsson
- 1949 Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
- 1949 In the Good Old Summertime
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
- 1948 Every Girl Should Be Married
as Saleslady
- 1948
- 1948 Fighting Father Dunne
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
- 1947 It Had to Be You
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
- 1947 Cynthia
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
- 1947 The Farmer's Daughter
as Mrs. Holstrom
- 1946 The Secret Heart
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
- 1943 Cry 'Havoc'
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1943 Headin' for God's Country
as Mrs. Nilsson
- 1942 Crossroads
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
- 1942 I Live on Danger
as Mrs. Sherman
- 1942 Girls' Town
as Mother Lorraine
- 1941 They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
- 1941 The Great Man's Lady
as Paula Wales
- 1941 Riders of the Timberline
as Donna Ryan
- 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
- 1934 School for Girls
as Dr. Anne Galvin
- 1933 The World Changes
as Mrs. Peterson
- 1928 Blockade
as Bess
- 1928 The Whip
as Iris d'Aquila
- 1927 Sorrell and Son
as Dora Sorrell
- 1927 The 13th Juror
as Helen Marsden
- 1927 Lonesome Ladies
as Polly Fosdick
- 1927 Babe Comes Home
as Vernie
- 1927 Easy Pickings
as Mary Ryan
- 1927 The Masked Woman
as Diane Delatour
- 1926 Midnight Lovers
as Diana Fothergill
- 1926 Miss Nobody
as Barbara Brown
- 1926 The Greater Glory
as Fanny
- 1926 Too Much Money
as Annabel Broadley
- 1925 The Splendid Road
as Sandra De Hault
- 1925 Winds of Chance
as Countess Courteau
- 1925 The Talker
as Kate Lennox
- 1925 One Way Street
as Lady Sylvia Hutton
- 1925 If I Marry Again
as Alicia Wingate
- 1924 Inez from Hollywood
as Inez Laranetta
- 1924 Hello, 'Frisco
as Anna Q. Nilsson
- 1924 Vanity's Price
as Vanna du Maurier
- 1924 The Breath of Scandal
as Anna
- 1924 The Fire Patrol
as Mary Ferguson
- 1924 The Side Show of Life
as Lady Auriol Dayne
- 1924 Broadway After Dark
as Helen Tremaine
- 1924 Between Friends
as Jessica Drene
- 1924 Flowing Gold
as Allegheny Briskow
- 1924 Painted People
as Leslie Carter
- 1924 Half-a-Dollar Bill
as The Stranger - Mrs. Webber
- 1923 Enemies of Children
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
- 1923 Thundering Dawn
as Mary Rogers
- 1923 Ponjola
as Lady Flavia Desmond
- 1923 Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
- 1923 The Spoilers
as Cherry Malotte
- 1923 Hollywood
as Anna Q. Nilsson
- 1923 The Rustle of Silk
as Lady Feo
- 1923 The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Fairfax
- 1923 Hearts Aflame
as Helen Foraker
- 1922 Pink Gods
as Lady Margot Cork
- 1922 The Man From Home
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
- 1922 Three Live Ghosts
as Ivis
- 1921
- 1921 The Lotus Eater
as Madge Vance
- 1921 The People of Värmland
as Anna
- 1921 Why Girls Leave Home
as Anna Hedder
- 1921 Without Limit
as Ember Edwards
- 1921 What Women Will Do
as Lily Gibbs
- 1920 The Brute Master
as Madeline Grey
- 1920 In the Heart of a Fool
as Margaret Muller
- 1920 The Fighting Chance
as Sylvia Landis
- 1920 One Hour Before Dawn
as Ellen Aldrich
- 1920 The Figurehead
as Mary Forbes
- 1920 The Toll Gate
as Mary Brown
- 1920 The 13th Commandment
as Leila Kip
- 1920 The Luck of the Irish
as Ruth Warren
- 1919 Soldiers of Fortune
as Alice Langham
- 1919 Her Kingdom of Dreams
as Carlotta Stanmore
- 1919 The Love Burglar
as Joan Gray
- 1919 A Sporting Chance
as Pamela Brent
- 1919 A Very Good Young Man
as Viva Bacchus
- 1919 The Way of the Strong
as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
- 1919 Cheating Cheaters
as Grace Palmer
- 1919 Venus in the East
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
- 1919 Auction of Souls
as Edith Graham
- 1918 Vanity Pool
as Carol Harper
- 1918 In Judgment of...
as Mary Manners
- 1918 No Man's Land
as Katherine Gresham
- 1918
- 1918 Heart of the Sunset
as Alaire Austin
- 1917 Over There
as Bettie Adams
- 1917 Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Mary Norton
- 1917 The Inevitable
as Florence Grey
- 1917 The Moral Code
as Jean Hyland
- 1917 Infidelity
as Elaine Bernard
- 1916 Her Surrender
as Rhoda Courtlandt
- 1916 Sold Out
as Leila Austin
- 1916 The Tight Rein
as Amy
- 1916 The Supreme Sacrifice
as Helen Chambers
- 1916 The Scarlet Road
as Betty Belgrave
- 1915 Barbara Frietchie
as Sue Negly
- 1915 The Regeneration
as Marie Deering
- 1915 The Haunting Fear
as Diana - an Adventuress
- 1915 A Sister's Burden
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
- 1915 The Destroyer
as Helen Vedrine
- 1915 The Siren's Reign
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
- 1915 The Night Operator at Buxton
as Helen
- 1914 Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Mignon Mars
- 1914 Regeneration
as Katherine Williams
- 1913 Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
- 1913 The Fatal Legacy
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
- 1913 Shenandoah
as Gertrude Illingham
- 1913 A Mississippi Tragedy
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
- 1912 The Confederate Ironclad
as Elinor
- 1912 The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher
as Betty - the Girl Telegrapher
- 1912 The Darling of the CSA
as Agnes Lane
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 1931
- 1923
- 1922