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.
Sunset Boulevard
Anna Q. Nilsson
One Hour Before Dawn
Ellen Aldrich
Sold Out
Leila Austin
Enemies of Children
Patricia - Patsy as an adult
Cheating Cheaters
Grace Palmer
The Fighting Chance
Sylvia Landis
The Little Minister
Villager
Soldiers of Fortune
Alice Langham
The Love Burglar
Joan Gray
If I Marry Again
Alicia Wingate
Auction of Souls
Regeneration
Katherine Williams
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Mignon Mars
Shenandoah
Gertrude Illingham
The Fatal Legacy
Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
A Mississippi Tragedy
Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Eliza - a Runaway Slave
The Siren's Reign
Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
The Destroyer
Helen Vedrine
The Haunting Fear
Diana - an Adventuress
A Sister's Burden
Ida - Nathanial's Wife
Hollywood
Anna Q. Nilsson
The Supreme Sacrifice
Helen Chambers
In the Heart of a Fool
Margaret Muller
The Night Operator at Buxton
Helen
Flowing Gold
Allegheny Briskow
Behind the Criminal
Madge
The Splendid Road
Sandra De Hault
Sorrell and Son
Dora Sorrell
The Luck of the Irish
Ruth Warren
The Unknown Man
(uncredited)
Winds of Chance
Countess Courteau
I Live on Danger
Mrs. Sherman
Cynthia
Miss Brady, English Teacher
The Secret Heart
Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
The World Changes
Mrs. Peterson
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
Blockade
Bess
No Man's Land
Katherine Gresham
Fighting Father Dunne
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
Girls' Town
Mother Lorraine
Grounds for Marriage
Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
The Regeneration
Marie Deering
Broadway After Dark
Helen Tremaine
Souls for Sale
Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
The Fire Patrol
Mary Ferguson
Prison Farm
Matron Ames
Ponjola
Lady Flavia Desmond
Cry 'Havoc'
Nurse (uncredited)
The 13th Commandment
Adam's Rib
Mrs. Michael Ramsay
Show Boat
Seamstress (uncredited)
The Toll Gate
Mary Brown
Her Surrender
Rhoda Courtlandt
In the Good Old Summertime
Woman with Harp (uncredited)
Three Live Ghosts
Ivis
The Man From Home
Genevieve Granger-Simpson
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Mary Norton
An American in Paris
Kay Jansen (uncredited)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Mrs. Elcott
Every Girl Should Be Married
Saleslady
Headin' for God's Country
Mrs. Nilsson
The Darling of the CSA
Agnes Lane
Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Self
Riders of the Timberline
Donna Ryan
The Great Diamond Robbery
Nurse (uncredited)
Adam's Rib
Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
It Had to Be You
Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
The Farmer's Daughter
Mrs. Holstrom
Lonesome Ladies
Polly Fosdick
Painted People
Leslie Carter
Midnight Lovers
Diana Fothergill
The Lotus Eater
Madge Vance
They Died with Their Boots On
Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
The Great Man's Lady
Paula Wales
The Isle of Lost Ships
Dorothy Fairfax
Crossroads
Madame Deval (uncredited)
The Confederate Ironclad
Elinor
Babe Comes Home
Vernie
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Mrs. Elcott
Venus in the East
Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Carlotta Stanmore
Miss Nobody
Barbara Brown
The Greater Glory
Fanny
The Masked Woman
Diane Delatour
The Side Show of Life
Lady Auriol Dayne
The Trail To Yesterday
A Sporting Chance
Pamela Brent
The Spoilers
Cherry Malotte
The People of Värmland
The Rustle of Silk
Lady Feo
Without Limit
Ember Edwards
The 13th Juror
Helen Marsden
Inez from Hollywood
Inez Laranetta
Too Much Money
Annabel Broadley
The Talker
Kate Lennox
School for Girls
Dr. Anne Galvin
Vanity Pool
Carol Harper
Heart of the Sunset
Pink Gods
Lady Margot Cork
Thundering Dawn
Mary Rogers
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Mrs. Virey
Vanity's Price
Vanna du Maurier
The Inevitable
Florence Grey
The Scarlet Road
Betty Belgrave
Why Girls Leave Home
Anna Hedder
Over There
Bettie Adams
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Hearts Aflame
Helen Foraker
What Women Will Do
Barbara Frietchie
Sue Negly
Between Friends
Jessica Drene
The Way of the Strong
Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
The Breath of Scandal
The Moral Code
Jean Hyland
Half-a-Dollar Bill
The Stranger - Mrs. Webber
A Very Good Young Man
Viva Bacchus