Actor
Anna Q. Nilsson
March 30, 1888 · Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Regis Toomey
3 titles together
They Died with Their Boots On, Show Boat, The Boy with Green Hair
Bess Flowers
3 titles together
Show Boat, The Farmer's Daughter, Every Girl Should Be Married
H.B. Warner
2 titles together
Sunset Boulevard, Crossroads
Buster Keaton
2 titles together
Sunset Boulevard, In the Good Old Summertime
Fred Aldrich
2 titles together
Sunset Boulevard, The Unknown Man
Madge Blake
2 titles together
An American in Paris, Adam's Rib
Full filmography · 122
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
19547.1
The Great Diamond Robbery
as Nurse (uncredited)
1954
The Unknown Man
as (uncredited)
1951
An American in Paris
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
19517
Show Boat
as Seamstress (uncredited)
19516.2
Grounds for Marriage
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
1951
Sunset Boulevard
as Anna Q. Nilsson
19508.3
Adam's Rib
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
19497.1
In the Good Old Summertime
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
19496.7
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Saleslady
19485.9
The Boy with Green Hair
cast
19486.2
Fighting Father Dunne
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
1948