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 Enemies of Children (1923)

Patricia - Patsy as an adult

poster Sold Out (1916)

Leila Austin

poster The Fatal Legacy (1913)

Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

poster Flowing Gold (1924)

Allegheny Briskow

poster Regeneration (1914)

Katherine Williams

poster A Sister's Burden (1915)

Ida - Nathanial's Wife

poster If I Marry Again (1925)

Alicia Wingate

poster The Haunting Fear (1915)

Diana - an Adventuress

poster The Splendid Road (1925)

Sandra De Hault

poster The Siren's Reign (1915)

Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

poster Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)

Eliza - a Runaway Slave

poster Shenandoah (1913)

Gertrude Illingham

poster The Destroyer (1915)

Helen Vedrine

poster A Mississippi Tragedy (1913)

Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

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