Anna Q. Nilsson

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.

Movies with Anna Q. Nilsson

• Sunset Boulevard 1950 · ★ 8.3
• An American in Paris 1951 · ★ 7.0
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 · ★ 7.1
• Adam's Rib 1949 · ★ 7.1
• They Died with Their Boots On 1941 · ★ 6.7
• Show Boat 1951 · ★ 6.2
• The Boy with Green Hair 1948 · ★ 6.2
• The Regeneration 1915 · ★ 6.8
• In the Good Old Summertime 1949 · ★ 6.8
• The Farmer's Daughter 1947 · ★ 7.2
• Crossroads 1942 · ★ 5.9
• Every Girl Should Be Married 1948 · ★ 5.9
• Souls for Sale 1923 · ★ 6.3
• The Little Minister 1934 · ★ 5.8
• Cry 'Havoc' 1943 · ★ 6.6
• The Unknown Man 1951 · ★ 5.1
• The Great Man's Lady 1941 · ★ 6.3
• The Secret Heart 1946 · ★ 6.5
• The Toll Gate 1920 · ★ 5.7
• Auction of Souls 1919 · ★ 4.9
• The World Changes 1933 · ★ 4.8
• Seven Keys to Baldpate 1917 · ★ 4.4
• I Live on Danger 1942 · ★ 6.1
• Cynthia 1947 · ★ 6.2
• The Man From Home 1922 · ★ 5.7
• Behind the Criminal 1937 · ★ 6.0
• Sorrell and Son 1927 · ★ 6.0
• A Trip to Paramountown 1922 · ★ 7.8
• Fighting Father Dunne 1948 · ★ 7.5
• Grounds for Marriage 1951 · ★ 5.0
• Prison Farm 1938 · ★ 6.8
• Three Live Ghosts 1922 · ★ 6.5
• It Had to Be You 1947 · ★ 7.8
• The Confederate Ironclad 1912 · ★ 6.5
• The People of Värmland 1921 · ★ 6.5
• If I Marry Again 1925 · ★ 3.3
• Regeneration 1914 · ★ 8.0
• Hollywood 1923 · ★ 9.0
• In the Heart of a Fool 1920 · ★ 3.7
• The Luck of the Irish 1920 · ★ 3.0