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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 30, 1888
Died
February 11, 1974
Place of Birth
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Also Known As
- Anna Quirentia Nilsson
- Annie Nilsson
- Anna Nilsson
- Анна Нильсен
Anna Q. Nilsson
0.8 Popularity
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
7.1
Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
7.1
Mrs. Elcott
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
0.0
Nurse (uncredited)
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
4.8
The Unknown Man
1951
7.0
Kay Jansen (uncredited)
An American in Paris
1951
6.1
Seamstress (uncredited)
Show Boat
1951
4.3
Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
Grounds for Marriage
1951
8.3
Anna Q. Nilsson
Sunset Boulevard
1950
7.1
Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
Adam's Rib
1949
6.6
Woman with Harp (uncredited)
In the Good Old Summertime
1949
Credits
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
1954
7.1
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott
1954
7.1
The Great Diamond Robbery
as Nurse (uncredited)
1954
0.0
The Unknown Man
1951
4.8
An American in Paris
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
1951
7.0
Show Boat
as Seamstress (uncredited)
1951
6.1
Grounds for Marriage
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
1951
4.3
Sunset Boulevard
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1950
8.3
Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
1949
7.1
In the Good Old Summertime
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
1949
6.6
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Saleslady
1948
6.1
Fighting Father Dunne
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
1948
6.0
It Had to Be You
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
1947
6.5
Cynthia
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
1947
5.9
The Farmer's Daughter
as Mrs. Holstrom
1947
6.9
The Secret Heart
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
1946
6.3
Cry 'Havoc'
as Nurse (uncredited)
1943
6.3
Headin' for God's Country
as Mrs. Nilsson
1943
0.0
Crossroads
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
1942
5.8
I Live on Danger
as Mrs. Sherman
1942
5.7
Girls' Town
as Mother Lorraine
1942
0.0
They Died with Their Boots On
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
1941
6.6
The Great Man's Lady
as Paula Wales
1941
6.3
Riders of the Timberline
as Donna Ryan
1941
2.0
Prison Farm
as Matron Ames
1938
5.7
Behind the Criminal
as Madge
1937
5.7
Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Mrs. Virey
1935
5.0
The Little Minister
as Villager
1934
5.5
School for Girls
as Dr. Anne Galvin
1934
6.0
The World Changes
as Mrs. Peterson
1933
4.3
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
as Self
1931
0.0
Blockade
as Bess
1928
0.0
🎬
The Whip
as Iris d'Aquila
1928
0.0
Sorrell and Son
as Dora Sorrell
1927
5.7
The 13th Juror
as Helen Marsden
1927
0.0
Lonesome Ladies
as Polly Fosdick
1927
0.0
Babe Comes Home
as Vernie
1927
0.0
🎬
Easy Pickings
as Mary Ryan
1927
0.0
The Masked Woman
as Diane Delatour
1927
0.0
Midnight Lovers
as Diana Fothergill
1926
6.0
Miss Nobody
as Barbara Brown
1926
0.0
The Greater Glory
as Fanny
1926
0.0
Too Much Money
as Annabel Broadley
1926
0.0
The Splendid Road
as Sandra De Hault
1925
0.0
Winds of Chance
as Countess Courteau
1925
4.8
The Talker
as Kate Lennox
1925
1.0
If I Marry Again
as Alicia Wingate
1925
1.0
Inez from Hollywood
as Inez Laranetta
1924
0.0
🎬
Hello, 'Frisco
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1924
5.0
Vanity's Price
as Vanna du Maurier
1924
0.0
The Breath of Scandal
1924
0.0
The Fire Patrol
as Mary Ferguson
1924
0.0
The Side Show of Life
as Lady Auriol Dayne
1924
0.0
Broadway After Dark
as Helen Tremaine
1924
0.0
Between Friends
as Jessica Drene
1924
0.0
Flowing Gold
as Allegheny Briskow
1924
0.0
Painted People
as Leslie Carter
1924
0.0
🎬
Enemies of Children
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
1923
0.0
Thundering Dawn
as Mary Rogers
1923
0.0
Ponjola
as Lady Flavia Desmond
1923
5.0
Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
1923
5.8
The Spoilers
as Cherry Malotte
1923
0.0
Hollywood
as Anna Q. Nilsson
1923
8.5
The Rustle of Silk
as Lady Feo
1923
0.0
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
1923
6.2
The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Fairfax
1923
0.0
Hearts Aflame
as Helen Foraker
1923
0.0
Pink Gods
as Lady Margot Cork
1922
0.0
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
7.3
The Man From Home
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
1922
6.2
Three Live Ghosts
as Ivis
1922
6.0
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921
0.0
The Lotus Eater
as Madge Vance
1921
0.0
The People of Värmland
1921
6.3
Why Girls Leave Home
as Anna Hedder
1921
0.0
Without Limit
as Ember Edwards
1921
0.0
What Women Will Do
1921
0.0
In the Heart of a Fool
as Margaret Muller
1920
1.0
The Fighting Chance
as Sylvia Landis
1920
0.0
One Hour Before Dawn
as Ellen Aldrich
1920
0.0
The Toll Gate
as Mary Brown
1920
5.3
The 13th Commandment
1920
0.0
The Luck of the Irish
as Ruth Warren
1920
1.0
Soldiers of Fortune
as Alice Langham
1919
0.0
Her Kingdom of Dreams
as Carlotta Stanmore
1919
0.0
A Sporting Chance
as Pamela Brent
1919
0.0
The Love Burglar
as Joan Gray
1919
0.0
The Way of the Strong
as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
1919
0.0
Cheating Cheaters
as Grace Palmer
1919
0.0
Venus in the East
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
1919
0.0
Auction of Souls
1919
4.9
Vanity Pool
as Carol Harper
1918
0.0
🎬
In Judgment of...
as Mary Manners
1918
0.0
🎬
No Man's Land
as Katherine Gresham
1918
0.0
The Trail To Yesterday
1918
0.0
Heart of the Sunset
1918
0.0
Over There
as Bettie Adams
1917
0.0
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Mary Norton
1917
4.4
The Inevitable
as Florence Grey
1917
0.0
The Moral Code
as Jean Hyland
1917
0.0
Her Surrender
as Rhoda Courtlandt
1916
0.0
Sold Out
as Leila Austin
1916
0.0
🎬
The Tight Rein
as Amy
1916
0.0
The Supreme Sacrifice
as Helen Chambers
1916
0.0
The Scarlet Road
as Betty Belgrave
1916
0.0
Barbara Frietchie
as Sue Negly
1915
0.0
The Regeneration
as Marie Deering
1915
6.8
The Haunting Fear
as Diana - an Adventuress
1915
0.0
A Sister's Burden
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
1915
0.0
The Destroyer
as Helen Vedrine
1915
0.0
The Siren's Reign
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
1915
0.0
The Night Operator at Buxton
as Helen
1915
0.0
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Mignon Mars
1914
0.0
Regeneration
as Katherine Williams
1914
7.5
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
1913
0.0
The Fatal Legacy
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
1913
0.0
Shenandoah
as Gertrude Illingham
1913
0.0
A Mississippi Tragedy
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
1913
0.0
The Confederate Ironclad
as Elinor
1912
5.3
The Darling of the CSA
as Agnes Lane
1912
4.0