Personal Info
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
BirthdayMarch 29, 1888 (136 years old)
Place of BirthYstad, Skåne län, Sweden
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.
Known For
Sunset Boulevard
One Hour Before Dawn
Sold Out
Enemies of Children
Cheating Cheaters
In Judgment of...
The Fighting Chance
The Little Minister
Soldiers of Fortune
The Love Burglar
If I Marry Again
Auction of Souls
Regeneration
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Shenandoah
The Fatal Legacy
A Mississippi Tragedy
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Siren's Reign
The Destroyer
The Haunting Fear
A Sister's Burden
Hollywood
The Supreme Sacrifice
In the Heart of a Fool
The Night Operator at Buxton
Flowing Gold
Behind the Criminal
The Splendid Road
Sorrell and Son
The Luck of the Irish
The Unknown Man
Winds of Chance
I Live on Danger
Cynthia
The Secret Heart
The World Changes
A Trip to Paramountown
Blockade
No Man's Land
Fighting Father Dunne
Girls' Town
Grounds for Marriage
The Regeneration
Broadway After Dark
The Whip
Easy Pickings
Souls for Sale
The Fire Patrol
Prison Farm
Ponjola
Cry 'Havoc'
The 13th Commandment
Adam's Rib
Show Boat
The Toll Gate
The Tight Rein
Her Surrender
In the Good Old Summertime
Three Live Ghosts
The Man From Home
Seven Keys to Baldpate
An American in Paris
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Every Girl Should Be Married
Headin' for God's Country
The Darling of the CSA
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Riders of the Timberline
The Great Diamond Robbery
Adam's Rib
It Had to Be You
The Farmer's Daughter
Lonesome Ladies
Painted People
Midnight Lovers
The Lotus Eater
They Died with Their Boots On
The Great Man's Lady
The Isle of Lost Ships
Crossroads
The Confederate Ironclad
Babe Comes Home
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Venus in the East
Hello, 'Frisco
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Miss Nobody
The Greater Glory
The Masked Woman
The Side Show of Life
The Trail To Yesterday
A Sporting Chance
The Spoilers
The People of Värmland
The Rustle of Silk
Without Limit
The 13th Juror
Inez from Hollywood
Too Much Money
The Talker
School for Girls
Vanity Pool
Heart of the Sunset
Pink Gods
Thundering Dawn
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Vanity's Price
The Inevitable
The Scarlet Road
Why Girls Leave Home
Over There
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
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