Anna Q. Nilsson
Actress

Anna Q. Nilsson Net Worth

Anna Q. Nilsson was a Swedish-born actress who emigrated to the United States in 1905 and became a famous model and silent film star. She was chosen the most beautiful girl in the US in 1907 and the most beautiful actress in the world in 1914. She appeared in films by top Hollywood studios and was named the ideal American girl in 1919. In 1926 she was chosen the most popular actress, but suffered a major setback in 1928 when she was thrown off a horse and fractured her thigh. Despite this, she continued to appear in films until 1954, when she retired. She passed away in 1974, six weeks shy of her 85th birthday.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day March 30, 1888
Birth Place  Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden, Sweden
Age 131 YEARS OLD
Died On February 11, 1974(1974-02-11) (aged 85)\nSun City, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Aries
Occupation Actress
Years active 1911–54
Spouse(s) Guy Coombs (m. 1913–1916) J. Marshall Gunnerson (m. 1923–1925)

💰 Net worth

Anna Q. Nilsson, a renowned actress from Sweden, is estimated to have a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million in the year 2024. With a successful career spanning many years, she has amassed considerable wealth through her talent and contributions to the entertainment industry. Known for her exceptional acting skills, Nilsson has captivated audiences with her performances and gained widespread recognition for her work in various films and productions. As a versatile and accomplished actress, she has undoubtedly made a significant impact on the world of cinema, solidifying her status as a prominent figure in the industry.

Biography/Timeline

1888

Anna Q. Nilsson was born in Ystad, Skåne County, Sweden in 1888. Her middle name, "Quirentia", is derived from her date of birth, March 30, Saint Quirinius' Day. When she was 8 years old her father, Per Nilsson, got a job at the local sugar factory in Hasslarp, a small community outside Helsingborg in Sweden where she spent most of her school years. She did very well in school, graduating with highest marks. Due to her good grades she was hired as a sales clerk in Halmstad on the Swedish west coast, unusual for a young woman from a worker's family at the time. But she had set her mind on going to America.

1905

In 1905, she emigrated to the United States through Ellis Island. In the new country, the Swedish teenager started working as a nursemaid and learned English quickly.

1907

Soon she started working as a model. In 1907, she was named "Most beautiful woman in America". Penrhyn Stanlaws (1877–1957), one of the most successful and sought after cover artists of his day, picked Anna Q. Nilsson to become one of his Models.

1911

Nilsson's modeling led her to getting a role in Kalem's 1911 film Molly Pitcher. She stayed at the Kalem studio for several years, ranked behind their top star, Alice Joyce, before branching out to other production companies. Films of special note are Regeneration (1915) Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), Soldiers of Fortune (1919), The Toll Gate and The Luck of the Irish (both 1920), and The Lotus Eater (1921). In 1921, she returned to Sweden to film Värmlänningarna, her only Swedish movie.

1920

In the 1920s, she freelanced successfully for Paramount, First National and many other studios and reached a peak of popularity just before the advent of talkies. In 1923, she was severely burned while filming a scene in which she drove a locomotive through a forest fire for Hearts Aflame; she required a week to recuperate, but that did not impede her career. That year, she made nine movies, including portraying "Cherry Malotte" in the second movie based upon Rex Beach's The Spoilers, a role that would be played in later versions by Betty Compson (1930), Marlene Dietrich (1942), and Anne Baxter (1955). In 1926, she was named Hollywood's most popular woman. She welcomed royalty when the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf) and his wife Louise Mountbatten visited Hollywood. In 1928, she struck a record of fan mail, 30,000 letters a month, and that year Joseph P. Kennedy brought her to his newly formed film company RKO Radio Pictures. The following year, as she was horse riding, she fell off the horse, was thrown against a stone wall and broke her hip. After a year of hard training, she was on her feet again. In 1928, Anna Nilsson made her last film of the silent era, Blockade.

1950

With the introduction of sound films, Nilsson's career went into a sharp decline, although she continued to play small, often uncredited parts in films into the 1950s. Between 1930 and 1950, she participated in 39 sound films, in smaller roles. She played the role of the Swedish immigrant mother of Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (1947). Her best known performance in a sound film is arguably her turn as "herself", referred to as one of Swanson's "waxworks" in the classic film Sunset Boulevard (1950), where she has one small line.

1974

Nilsson was married to actor Guy Coombs (1916) and to Norwegian-American shoe merchant John Marshall Gunnerson (1923–25). She died in Sun City, California, on February 11, 1974, of heart failure.

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