Anna Q. Nilsson - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Anna Q. Nilsson

★ Acting🎥 127 films📅 1912–1954🔥 1

Also known as: Anna Quirentia Nilsson, Annie Nilsson, Anna Nilsson, Анна Нильсен

Born in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

1888-03-30 (age 85 at death)

Died 1974-02-11

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.