1950Winner
Best Performance
Sunset Boulevard
Anna Q. Nilsson
Actor
Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
March 30, 1888
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1951Nominee
Best Performance
An American in Paris
1954Nominee
Best Performance
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Career Highlights
1941Highlight
Best Performance
They Died with Their Boots On
1949Highlight
Best Performance
Adam's Rib
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Sunset Boulevard
An American in Paris
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers