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 Souls for Sale (1923)

Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

poster Show Boat (1951)

Seamstress (uncredited)

poster Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)

poster Prison Farm (1938)

Matron Ames

poster Winds of Chance (1925)

Countess Courteau

poster The Secret Heart (1946)

Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

poster Cry 'Havoc' (1943)

Nurse (uncredited)

poster Adam's Rib (1923)

Mrs. Michael Ramsay

poster Cynthia (1947)

Miss Brady, English Teacher

poster The Man From Home (1922)

Genevieve Granger-Simpson

poster Girls' Town (1942)

Mother Lorraine

poster Ponjola (1923)

Lady Flavia Desmond

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