Anna Q. Nilsson

from Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Artwork for Show BoatImage of 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.

Timeline

1954Aged 66

  • Poster for The Great Diamond Robbery

    Nurse (uncredited)

  • Poster for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)

1951Aged 63

  • Poster for Grounds for Marriage

    Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)

  • Poster for Show Boat

    Seamstress (uncredited)

  • Poster for An American in Paris

    Kay Jansen (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Unknown Man

    (uncredited)

1950Aged 62

  • Poster for Sunset Boulevard

    Anna Q. Nilsson

1949Aged 61

  • Poster for In the Good Old Summertime

    Woman with Harp (uncredited)

  • Poster for Adam's Rib

    Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)

1948Aged 60

  • Poster for Fighting Father Dunne

    Mrs. Olaf Knudson

  • Poster for The Boy with Green Hair

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Every Girl Should Be Married

    Saleslady

1947Aged 59

  • Poster for The Farmer's Daughter

    Mrs. Holstrom

  • Poster for Cynthia

    Miss Brady, English Teacher

  • Poster for It Had to Be You

    Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)

1946Aged 58

  • Poster for The Secret Heart

    Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

1943Aged 55

  • Poster for Headin' for God's Country

    Mrs. Nilsson

  • Poster for Cry 'Havoc'

    Nurse (uncredited)

1942Aged 54

  • Poster for Girls' Town

    Mother Lorraine

  • Poster for I Live on Danger

    Mrs. Sherman

  • Poster for Crossroads

    Madame Deval (uncredited)

1941Aged 53

  • Poster for Riders of the Timberline

    Donna Ryan

  • Poster for The Great Man's Lady

    Paula Wales

  • Poster for They Died with Their Boots On

    Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)

1938Aged 50

  • Poster for Prison Farm

    Matron Ames

1937Aged 49

  • Poster for Behind the Criminal

    Madge

1935Aged 47

  • Poster for Wanderer of the Wasteland

    Mrs. Virey

1934Aged 46

  • Poster for School for Girls

    Dr. Anne Galvin

  • Poster for The Little Minister

    Villager

1933Aged 45

  • Poster for The World Changes

    Mrs. Peterson

1928Aged 40

  • Poster for The Whip

    Iris d'Aquila

  • Poster for Blockade

    Bess

1927Aged 39

  • Poster for The Masked Woman

    Diane Delatour

  • Easy Pickings

    Mary Ryan

  • Poster for Babe Comes Home

    Vernie

  • Poster for Lonesome Ladies

    Polly Fosdick

  • Poster for The 13th Juror

    Helen Marsden

  • Poster for Sorrell and Son

    Dora Sorrell

1926Aged 38

  • Poster for Too Much Money

    Annabel Broadley

  • Poster for The Greater Glory

    Fanny

  • Poster for Miss Nobody

    Barbara Brown

  • Poster for Midnight Lovers

    Diana Fothergill

1925Aged 37

  • Poster for If I Marry Again

    Alicia Wingate

  • Poster for One Way Street

    Lady Sylvia Hutton

  • Poster for The Talker

    Kate Lennox

  • Poster for Winds of Chance

    Countess Courteau

  • Poster for The Splendid Road

    Sandra De Hault

1924Aged 36

  • Poster for Half-a-Dollar Bill

    The Stranger - Mrs. Webber

  • Poster for Painted People

    Leslie Carter

  • Poster for Flowing Gold

    Allegheny Briskow

  • Poster for Between Friends

    Jessica Drene

  • Poster for Broadway After Dark

    Helen Tremaine

  • Poster for The Side Show of Life

    Lady Auriol Dayne

  • Poster for The Fire Patrol

    Mary Ferguson

  • Poster for The Breath of Scandal

    Anna

  • Poster for Vanity's Price

    Vanna du Maurier

  • Hello, 'Frisco

    Anna Q. Nilsson

  • Poster for Inez from Hollywood

    Inez Laranetta

1923Aged 35

  • Poster for Hearts Aflame

    Helen Foraker

  • Poster for The Isle of Lost Ships

    Dorothy Fairfax

  • Poster for Souls for Sale

    Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Rustle of Silk

    Lady Feo

  • Poster for Hollywood

    Anna Q. Nilsson

  • Poster for The Spoilers

    Cherry Malotte

  • Poster for Adam's Rib

    Mrs. Michael Ramsay

  • Poster for Ponjola

    Lady Flavia Desmond

  • Poster for Thundering Dawn

    Mary Rogers

  • Poster for Enemies of Children

    Patricia - Patsy as an adult

1922Aged 34

  • Poster for Three Live Ghosts

    Ivis

  • Poster for The Man From Home

    Genevieve Granger-Simpson

  • Poster for A Trip to Paramountown

    Self

  • Poster for Pink Gods

    Lady Margot Cork

1921Aged 33

  • Poster for What Women Will Do

    Lily Gibbs

  • Poster for Without Limit

    Ember Edwards

  • Poster for Why Girls Leave Home

    Anna Hedder

  • Poster for The People of Värmland

    Anna

  • Poster for The Lotus Eater

    Madge Vance

  • Poster for Ten Nights in a Bar Room

    (Unknown)

1920Aged 32

  • Poster for The Luck of the Irish

    Ruth Warren

  • Poster for The 13th Commandment

    Leila Kip

  • Poster for The Toll Gate

    Mary Brown

  • Poster for The Figurehead

    Mary Forbes

  • Poster for One Hour Before Dawn

    Ellen Aldrich

  • Poster for The Fighting Chance

    Sylvia Landis

  • Poster for In the Heart of a Fool

    Margaret Muller

  • Poster for The Brute Master

    Madeline Grey

1919Aged 31

  • Poster for Auction of Souls

    Edith Graham

  • Poster for Venus in the East

    Mrs. Pat Dyvenot

  • Poster for Cheating Cheaters

    Grace Palmer

  • Poster for The Way of the Strong

    Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton

  • Poster for A Very Good Young Man

    Viva Bacchus

  • Poster for A Sporting Chance

    Pamela Brent

  • Poster for The Love Burglar

    Joan Gray

  • Poster for Her Kingdom of Dreams

    Carlotta Stanmore

  • Poster for Soldiers of Fortune

    Alice Langham

1918Aged 30

1917Aged 29

  • Poster for Infidelity

    Elaine Bernard

  • Poster for The Moral Code

    Jean Hyland

  • Poster for The Inevitable

    Florence Grey

  • Poster for Seven Keys to Baldpate

    Mary Norton

  • Poster for Over There

    Bettie Adams

1916Aged 28

  • Poster for The Scarlet Road

    Betty Belgrave

  • Poster for The Supreme Sacrifice

    Helen Chambers

  • The Tight Rein

    Amy

  • Poster for Sold Out

    Leila Austin

  • Poster for Her Surrender

    Rhoda Courtlandt

1915Aged 27

  • Poster for The Night Operator at Buxton

    Helen

  • Poster for The Siren's Reign

    Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

  • Poster for The Destroyer

    Helen Vedrine

  • Poster for A Sister's Burden

    Ida - Nathanial's Wife

  • Poster for The Haunting Fear

    Diana - an Adventuress

  • Poster for The Regeneration

    Marie Deering

  • Poster for Barbara Frietchie

    Sue Negly

1914Aged 26

  • Poster for Regeneration

    Katherine Williams

  • Poster for Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec

    Mignon Mars

1913Aged 25

  • Poster for A Mississippi Tragedy

    Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

  • Poster for Shenandoah

    Gertrude Illingham

  • Poster for The Fatal Legacy

    Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

  • Poster for Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Eliza - a Runaway Slave

1912Aged 24