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 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
Details Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
Mrs. Elcott
Details The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
Nurse (uncredited)
Details The Unknown Man
1951
Character TBA
Details An American in Paris
1951
Kay Jansen (uncredited)
Details Show Boat
1951
Seamstress (uncredited)
Details Grounds for Marriage
1951
Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
Details Sunset Boulevard
1950
Anna Q. Nilsson
Details Adam's Rib
1949
Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
Details In the Good Old Summertime
1949
Woman with Harp (uncredited)
Details Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
Saleslady
Details Fighting Father Dunne
1948
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
Details It Had to Be You
1947
Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
Details Cynthia
1947
Miss Brady, English Teacher
Details The Farmer's Daughter
1947
Mrs. Holstrom
Details The Secret Heart
1946
Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
Details Cry 'Havoc'
1943
Nurse (uncredited)
Details Headin' for God's Country
1943
Mrs. Nilsson
Details Crossroads
1942
Madame Deval (uncredited)
Details I Live on Danger
1942
Mrs. Sherman
Details Girls' Town
1942
Mother Lorraine
Details They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
Details The Great Man's Lady
1941
Paula Wales
Details Riders of the Timberline
1941
Donna Ryan
Details Behind the Criminal
1937
Madge
Details Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935
Mrs. Virey
Details The Little Minister
1934
Villager
Details School for Girls
1934
Dr. Anne Galvin
Details The World Changes
1933
Mrs. Peterson
Details Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
1931
Self
Details Sorrell and Son
1927
Dora Sorrell
Details The 13th Juror
1927
Helen Marsden
Details Lonesome Ladies
1927
Polly Fosdick
Details The Masked Woman
1927
Diane Delatour
Details Midnight Lovers
1926
Diana Fothergill
Details Miss Nobody
1926
Barbara Brown
Details Too Much Money
1926
Annabel Broadley
Details The Splendid Road
1925
Sandra De Hault
Details Winds of Chance
1925
Countess Courteau
Details If I Marry Again
1925
Alicia Wingate
Details Inez from Hollywood
1924
Inez Laranetta
Details Hello, 'Frisco
1924
Anna Q. Nilsson
Details Vanity's Price
1924
Vanna du Maurier
Details The Fire Patrol
1924
Mary Ferguson
Details The Side Show of Life
1924
Lady Auriol Dayne
Details Broadway After Dark
1924
Helen Tremaine
Details Flowing Gold
1924
Allegheny Briskow
Details Painted People
1924
Leslie Carter
Details Enemies of Children
1923
Patricia - Patsy as an adult
Details Thundering Dawn
1923
Mary Rogers
Details Ponjola
1923
Lady Flavia Desmond
Details Adam's Rib
1923
Mrs. Michael Ramsay
Details The Spoilers
1923
Cherry Malotte
Details Hollywood
1923
Anna Q. Nilsson
Details The Rustle of Silk
1923
Lady Feo
Details Souls for Sale
1923
Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Details The Isle of Lost Ships
1923
Dorothy Fairfax
Details Pink Gods
1922
Lady Margot Cork
Details A Trip to Paramountown
1922
Self
Details The Man From Home
1922
Genevieve Granger-Simpson
Details Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921
Character TBA
Details The Lotus Eater
1921
Madge Vance
Details The People of Värmland
1921
Character TBA
Details Why Girls Leave Home
1921
Anna Hedder
Details Without Limit
1921
Ember Edwards
Details In the Heart of a Fool
1920
Margaret Muller
Details The Fighting Chance
1920
Sylvia Landis
Details One Hour Before Dawn
1920
Ellen Aldrich
Details The Toll Gate
1920
Mary Brown
Details The 13th Commandment
1920
Character TBA
Details The Luck of the Irish
1920
Ruth Warren
Details Soldiers of Fortune
1919
Alice Langham
Details Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919
Carlotta Stanmore
Details The Love Burglar
1919
Joan Gray
Details A Sporting Chance
1919
Pamela Brent
Details Cheating Cheaters
1919
Grace Palmer
Details Venus in the East
1919
Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
Details Auction of Souls
1919
Character TBA
Details Vanity Pool
1918
Carol Harper
Details In Judgment of...
1918
Mary Manners
Details No Man's Land
1918
Katherine Gresham
Details The Trail To Yesterday
1918
Character TBA
Details Heart of the Sunset
1918
Character TBA
Details Seven Keys to Baldpate
1917
Mary Norton
Details The Inevitable
1917
Florence Grey
Details Her Surrender
1916
Rhoda Courtlandt
Details The Supreme Sacrifice
1916
Helen Chambers
Details The Scarlet Road
1916
Betty Belgrave
Details The Regeneration
1915
Marie Deering
Details The Haunting Fear
1915
Diana - an Adventuress
Details A Sister's Burden
1915
Ida - Nathanial's Wife
Details The Destroyer
1915
Helen Vedrine
Details The Siren's Reign
1915
Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
Details The Night Operator at Buxton
1915
Helen
Details Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914
Mignon Mars
Details Regeneration
1914
Katherine Williams
Details Uncle Tom's Cabin
1913
Eliza - a Runaway Slave
Details The Fatal Legacy
1913
Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
Details Shenandoah
1913
Gertrude Illingham
Details A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
Details The Confederate Ironclad
1912
Elinor
Details The Darling of the CSA
1912
Agnes Lane
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