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.
Filmography
Blockade
1928 · 10.0
Half-a-Dollar Bill
1924 · 10.0
Easy Pickings
1927 · 10.0
Painted People
1924 · 10.0
The Inevitable
1917 · 10.0
One Hour Before Dawn
1920 · 10.0
A Very Good Young Man
1919 · 10.0
The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher
1912 · 10.0
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921 · 10.0
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954 · 10.0
A Sporting Chance
1919 · 10.0
Why Girls Leave Home
1921 · 10.0
The Isle of Lost Ships
1923 · 10.0
The Rustle of Silk
1923 · 10.0
Girls' Town
1942 · 10.0
Broadway After Dark
1924 · 10.0
The Masked Woman
1927 · 10.0
The Whip
1928 · 10.0
Shenandoah
1913 · 10.0
The Figurehead
1920 · 9.0
Without Limit
1921 · 9.0
The Breath of Scandal
1924 · 9.0
The 13th Commandment
1920 · 9.0
Babe Comes Home
1927 · 9.0
One Way Street
1925 · 9.0
Hearts Aflame
1923 · 9.0
Hollywood
1923 · 9.0
Too Much Money
1926 · 9.0
The 13th Juror
1927 · 9.0
The Lotus Eater
1921 · 9.0
Flowing Gold
1924 · 9.0
Miss Nobody
1926 · 9.0
The Spoilers
1923 · 9.0
Over There
1917 · 9.0
Enemies of Children
1923 · 9.0
The Destroyer
1915 · 9.0
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · 8.3
Cheating Cheaters
1919 · 8.0
Her Surrender
1916 · 8.0
Venus in the East
1919 · 8.0
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1913 · 8.0
The Greater Glory
1926 · 8.0
The Brute Master
1920 · 8.0
The Scarlet Road
1916 · 8.0
The Tight Rein
1916 · 8.0
Headin' for God's Country
1943 · 8.0
Heart of the Sunset
1918 · 8.0
The Side Show of Life
1924 · 8.0
Inez from Hollywood
1924 · 8.0
Thundering Dawn
1923 · 8.0
Regeneration
1914 · 8.0
Sold Out
1916 · 8.0
Vanity's Price
1924 · 8.0
The Love Burglar
1919 · 8.0
The Haunting Fear
1915 · 8.0
It Had to Be You
1947 · 7.8
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · 7.5
School for Girls
1934 · 7.5
Fighting Father Dunne
1948 · 7.5
Ponjola
1923 · 7.5
Midnight Lovers
1926 · 7.5
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · 7.2
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · 7.1
Adam's Rib
1949 · 7.1
Infidelity
1917 · 7.0
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919 · 7.0
The Siren's Reign
1915 · 7.0
The Splendid Road
1925 · 7.0
Lonesome Ladies
1927 · 7.0
What Women Will Do
1921 · 7.0
Pink Gods
1922 · 7.0
The Fire Patrol
1924 · 7.0
The Fighting Chance
1920 · 7.0
Soldiers of Fortune
1919 · 7.0
Between Friends
1924 · 7.0
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913 · 7.0
The Fatal Legacy
1913 · 7.0
An American in Paris
1951 · 7.0
In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · 6.8
The Regeneration
1915 · 6.8
Adam's Rib
1923 · 6.8
Prison Farm
1938 · 6.8
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · 6.7
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · 6.6
The Secret Heart
1946 · 6.5
The Confederate Ironclad
1912 · 6.5
Three Live Ghosts
1922 · 6.5
Winds of Chance
1925 · 6.5
The People of Värmland
1921 · 6.5
The Great Man's Lady
1941 · 6.3
Show Boat
1951 · 6.2
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · 6.2
Cynthia
1947 · 6.2
I Live on Danger
1942 · 6.1
Sorrell and Son
1927 · 6.0
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935 · 6.0
Behind the Criminal
1937 · 6.0
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · 5.9
Crossroads
1942 · 5.9
The Little Minister
1934 · 5.8
The Toll Gate
1920 · 5.7
The Man From Home
1922 · 5.7
The Unknown Man
1951 · 5.1
Grounds for Marriage
1951 · 5.0
Auction of Souls
1919 · 4.9
The World Changes
1933 · 4.8
The Way of the Strong
1919 · 4.5
Riders of the Timberline
1941 · 4.5
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1917 · 4.4
The Darling of the CSA
1912 · 4.0
The Talker
1925 · 4.0
In the Heart of a Fool
1920 · 3.7
If I Marry Again
1925 · 3.3
The Luck of the Irish
1920 · 3.0
The Moral Code
1917 · 1.0
Vanity Pool
1918 · 0.0
The Night Operator at Buxton
1915 · 0.0
A Sister's Burden
1915 · 0.0
The Trail To Yesterday
1918 · 0.0
Barbara Frietchie
1915 · 0.0
No Man's Land
1918 · 0.0
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914 · 0.0
The Supreme Sacrifice
1916 · 0.0
In Judgment of...
1918 · 0.0