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An American in Paris

Movie 1951

Riders of the Timberline

as Donna Ryan

Movie 1941

Prison Farm

as Matron Ames

Movie 1938

Easy Pickings

as Mary Ryan

Movie 1927

The People of Värmland

Movie 1921

Seven Keys to Baldpate

as Mary Norton

Movie 1917

The Regeneration

as Marie Deering

Movie 1915

The Confederate Ironclad

as Elinor

Movie 1912

About Anna Q. Nilsson

Anna Q. Nilsson

Birthday

1888-03-30

Place of Birth

Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

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.