Anna Q. Nilsson
Birthday: 1888-03-30
Deathday: 1974-02-11
Birthplace: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Credits
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1954-07-22 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mrs. Elcott (uncredited) |
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1954-07-22 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mrs. Elcott |
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1954-01-29 | The Great Diamond Robbery | Nurse (uncredited) |
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1951-11-09 | The Unknown Man | |
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1951-09-26 | An American in Paris | Kay Jansen (uncredited) |
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1951-07-19 | Show Boat | Seamstress (uncredited) |
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1951-01-12 | Grounds for Marriage | Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited) |
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1950-08-10 | Sunset Boulevard | Anna Q. Nilsson |
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1949-11-18 | Adam's Rib | Mrs. Poynter (uncredited) |
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1949-07-29 | In the Good Old Summertime | Woman with Harp (uncredited) |
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1948-12-25 | Every Girl Should Be Married | Saleslady |
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1948-05-12 | Fighting Father Dunne | Mrs. Olaf Knudson |
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1947-12-07 | It Had to Be You | Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited) |
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1947-08-29 | Cynthia | Miss Brady, English Teacher |
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1947-03-26 | The Farmer's Daughter | Mrs. Holstrom |
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1946-12-25 | The Secret Heart | Dr. Rossiger's Secretary |
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1943-11-23 | Cry 'Havoc' | Nurse (uncredited) |
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1943-08-26 | Headin' for God's Country | Mrs. Nilsson |
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1942-07-23 | Crossroads | Madame Deval (uncredited) |
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1942-06-16 | I Live on Danger | Mrs. Sherman |
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1942-03-06 | Girls' Town | Mother Lorraine |
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1941-11-20 | They Died with Their Boots On | Mrs. Taipe (uncredited) |
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1941-10-31 | The Great Man's Lady | Paula Wales |
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1941-09-17 | Riders of the Timberline | Donna Ryan |
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1938-06-17 | Prison Farm | Matron Ames |
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1937-10-30 | Behind the Criminal | Madge |
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1935-09-09 | Wanderer of the Wasteland | Mrs. Virey |
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1934-12-28 | The Little Minister | Villager |
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1934-03-22 | School for Girls | Dr. Anne Galvin |
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1933-11-25 | The World Changes | Mrs. Peterson |
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1928-12-16 | Blockade | Bess |
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1928-09-16 | The Whip | Iris d'Aquila |
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1927-12-02 | Sorrell and Son | Dora Sorrell |
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1927-11-13 | The 13th Juror | Helen Marsden |
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1927-07-03 | Lonesome Ladies | Polly Fosdick |
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1927-05-22 | Babe Comes Home | Vernie |
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1927-02-20 | Easy Pickings | Mary Ryan |
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1927-01-16 | The Masked Woman | Diane Delatour |
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1926-10-25 | Midnight Lovers | Diana Fothergill |
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1926-06-27 | Miss Nobody | Barbara Brown |
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1926-05-02 | The Greater Glory | Fanny |
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1926-01-03 | Too Much Money | Annabel Broadley |
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1925-12-06 | The Splendid Road | Sandra De Hault |
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1925-08-15 | Winds of Chance | Countess Courteau |
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1925-05-24 | The Talker | Kate Lennox |
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1925-02-15 | If I Marry Again | Alicia Wingate |
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1924-12-14 | Inez from Hollywood | Inez Laranetta |
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1924-09-28 | Hello, 'Frisco | Anna Q. Nilsson |
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1924-09-07 | Vanity's Price | Vanna du Maurier |
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1924-08-14 | The Fire Patrol | Mary Ferguson |
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1924-07-21 | The Side Show of Life | Lady Auriol Dayne |
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1924-05-19 | Broadway After Dark | Helen Tremaine |
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1924-03-01 | Flowing Gold | Allegheny Briskow |
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1924-01-28 | Painted People | Leslie Carter |
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1923-12-13 | Enemies of Children | Patricia - Patsy as an adult |
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1923-11-05 | Thundering Dawn | Mary Rogers |
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1923-10-28 | Ponjola | Lady Flavia Desmond |
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1923-09-24 | Adam's Rib | Mrs. Michael Ramsay |
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1923-08-26 | The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte |
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1923-08-19 | Hollywood | Anna Q. Nilsson |
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1923-05-13 | The Rustle of Silk | Lady Feo |
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1923-03-17 | The Isle of Lost Ships | Dorothy Fairfax |
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1922-09-24 | Pink Gods | Lady Margot Cork |
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1922-04-30 | The Man From Home | Genevieve Granger-Simpson |
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1922-01-01 | Three Live Ghosts | Ivis |
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1921-12-11 | Ten Nights in a Bar Room | |
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1921-11-27 | The Lotus Eater | Madge Vance |
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1921-10-23 | The People of Värmland | |
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1921-09-04 | Why Girls Leave Home | Anna Hedder |
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1921-03-20 | Without Limit | Ember Edwards |
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1920-10-01 | In the Heart of a Fool | Margaret Muller |
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1920-08-01 | The Fighting Chance | Sylvia Landis |
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1920-07-11 | One Hour Before Dawn | Ellen Aldrich |
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1920-04-15 | The Toll Gate | Mary Brown |
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1920-01-17 | The 13th Commandment | |
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1920-01-05 | The Luck of the Irish | Ruth Warren |
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1919-11-22 | Soldiers of Fortune | Alice Langham |
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1919-09-21 | Her Kingdom of Dreams | Carlotta Stanmore |
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1919-07-13 | The Love Burglar | Joan Gray |
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1919-07-13 | A Sporting Chance | Pamela Brent |
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1919-01-26 | Cheating Cheaters | Grace Palmer |
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1919-01-26 | Venus in the East | Mrs. Pat Dyvenot |
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1919-01-19 | Auction of Souls | |
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1918-12-07 | Vanity Pool | Carol Harper |
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1918-08-12 | In Judgment of... | Mary Manners |
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1918-07-08 | No Man's Land | Katherine Gresham |
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1918-05-06 | The Trail To Yesterday | |
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1918-03-01 | Heart of the Sunset | |
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1917-10-27 | Over There | Bettie Adams |
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1917-10-16 | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mary Norton |
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1917-04-05 | The Inevitable | Florence Grey |
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1916-06-05 | Sold Out | Leila Austin |
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1916-05-14 | The Tight Rein | Amy |
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1916-03-20 | The Supreme Sacrifice | Helen Chambers |
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1916-02-16 | The Scarlet Road | Betty Belgrave |
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1916-01-01 | Her Surrender | Rhoda Courtlandt |
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1915-09-12 | The Regeneration | Marie Deering |
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1915-06-11 | The Haunting Fear | Diana - an Adventuress |
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1915-05-10 | A Sister's Burden | Ida - Nathanial's Wife |
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1915-04-30 | The Destroyer | Helen Vedrine |
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1915-04-02 | The Siren's Reign | Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman |
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1915-03-13 | The Night Operator at Buxton | Helen |
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1914-05-25 | Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec | Mignon Mars |
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1914-05-11 | Regeneration | Katherine Williams |
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1913-12-17 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Eliza - a Runaway Slave |
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1913-09-10 | The Fatal Legacy | Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife |
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1913-07-04 | Shenandoah | Gertrude Illingham |
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1913-04-05 | A Mississippi Tragedy | Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter |
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1912-10-04 | The Confederate Ironclad | Elinor |
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1912-09-06 | The Darling of the CSA | Agnes Lane |