Born in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden — Mar 30 1888• Died Feb 11 1974

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.
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Anna Q. Nilsson

Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)

Kay Jansen (uncredited)

Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)

Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)

Seamstress (uncredited)

Woman with Harp (uncredited)

Matron Ames

(uncredited)

Nurse (uncredited)

Madame Deval (uncredited)

Anna Q. Nilsson

Mrs. Peterson

Mrs. Holstrom

Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

Dr. Anne Galvin

Mrs. Virey

Paula Wales

Mother Lorraine

Leslie Carter

Saleslady

Nurse (uncredited)

Mrs. Sherman

Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)

Inez Laranetta

Villager

Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)

Self

Dora Sorrell

Vanna du Maurier
Anna Q. Nilsson

Sandra De Hault

Mrs. Nilsson

Bess

Fanny

Ellen Aldrich

Katherine Williams

Miss Brady, English Teacher

Mary Rogers

Lady Margot Cork

Mrs. Michael Ramsay
Mary Ryan

Patricia - Patsy as an adult

Dr. Rossiger's Secretary

Donna Ryan

Helen Foraker

Elaine Bernard

Kate Lennox

Mrs. Olaf Knudson

Helen Tremaine

Annabel Broadley

Leila Kip

Alaire Austin
Iris d'Aquila

Carlotta Stanmore

Joan Gray

Cherry Malotte

Barbara Brown
Amy

Diana Fothergill

Ruth Warren

Ida - Nathanial's Wife

Anna Hedder

Rhoda Courtlandt

Genevieve Granger-Simpson

Lady Feo

Countess Courteau

Allegheny Briskow

Alice Langham

Madge Vance

Ivis

Alicia Wingate

Jessica Drene

Helen

Diane Delatour


Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman

Mrs. Pat Dyvenot

Helen Chambers

Gertrude Illingham

Marie Deering

Helen Marsden

Agnes Lane

Ember Edwards

Viva Bacchus

The Stranger - Mrs. Webber

Vernie

Leila Austin

Carol Harper

Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter

Mary Ferguson

Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife

Grace Palmer

Diana - an Adventuress

Bettie Adams


Pamela Brent

Lady Auriol Dayne

Katherine Gresham

Self

Eliza - a Runaway Slave

Madge

Lady Sylvia Hutton

Lady Flavia Desmond

Margaret Muller

Mary Manners

Mary Brown

Sylvia Landis

Polly Fosdick

Mary Norton

Dorothy Fairfax


Betty Belgrave

Mary Forbes

Jean Hyland
Betty - the Girl Telegrapher

Madeline Grey

Florence Grey

Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton

Elinor

Helen Vedrine



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