Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1888-03-30
Place of Birth
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Anna Q. Nilsson
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.
Known For
as Anna Q. Nilsson
as Mary Forbes
as Mary Norton
as Elaine Bernard
as Anna Hedder
as Florence Grey
as The Stranger - Mrs. Webber
as Margaret Muller
as Dorothy Fairfax
as Lily Gibbs
as Barbara Brown
as Mary Ferguson
as Alaire Austin
as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
as Kate Lennox
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
as Dora Sorrell
as Mary Ryan
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
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