Anna Q. Nilsson 03/30/1888 , (136 years old) in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Known for department

Acting

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.

poster Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Anna Q. Nilsson

poster Hollywood (1923)

Anna Q. Nilsson

poster The Splendid Road (1925)

Sandra De Hault

poster Enemies of Children (1923)

Patricia - Patsy as an adult

poster The Haunting Fear (1915)

Diana - an Adventuress

poster A Sister's Burden (1915)

Ida - Nathanial's Wife

poster The Siren's Reign (1915)

Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

poster Flowing Gold (1924)

Allegheny Briskow

poster A Mississippi Tragedy (1913)

Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

poster The Fatal Legacy (1913)

Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

poster Regeneration (1914)

Katherine Williams

poster The Destroyer (1915)

Helen Vedrine

poster If I Marry Again (1925)

Alicia Wingate

poster Shenandoah (1913)

Gertrude Illingham

poster Sold Out (1916)

Leila Austin

poster Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)

Eliza - a Runaway Slave

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