Anna Q. Nilsson
Date of Birth:
1888.03.30
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1974.02.11
Place of Birth:
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Total films:
119
Total series:
0
Last tv shows:
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Best tv shows:
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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.
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