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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.
The roles that explain the career.
24 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | The Great Diamond Robbery | Nurse (uncredited) | Film |
| 1954 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mrs. Elcott | Film |
| 1951 | Show Boat | Seamstress (uncredited) | Film |
| 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Anna Q. Nilsson | Film |
| 1948 | Every Girl Should Be Married | Saleslady | Film |
| 1947 | Cynthia | Miss Brady, English Teacher | Film |
| 1947 | The Farmer's Daughter | Mrs. Holstrom | Film |
| 1943 | Cry 'Havoc' | Nurse (uncredited) | Film |
| 1942 | Crossroads | Madame Deval (uncredited) | Film |
| 1942 | Girls' Town | Mother Lorraine | Film |
| 1941 | Riders of the Timberline | Donna Ryan | Film |
| 1938 | Prison Farm | Matron Ames | Film |
| 1937 | Behind the Criminal | Madge | Film |
| 1935 | Wanderer of the Wasteland | Mrs. Virey | Film |
| 1933 | The World Changes | Mrs. Peterson | Film |
| 1931 | Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! | Self | Film |
| 1927 | The Masked Woman | Diane Delatour | Film |
| 1927 | Sorrell and Son | Dora Sorrell | Film |
| 1921 | The People of Värmland | Anna | Film |
| 1920 | The Toll Gate | Mary Brown | Film |
| 1917 | Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mary Norton | Film |
| 1916 | Her Surrender | Rhoda Courtlandt | Film |
| 1915 | The Regeneration | Marie Deering | Film |
| 1912 | The Confederate Ironclad | Elinor | Film |
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