A liquid crystal composition comprising at least one liquid crystal compound and at least one anthraquinone compound represented by formula (1) below: Formula (1) (wherein R2 to R8 each independently represents a hydrogen or substituent; Het is a sulfur or oxygen; B1 and B2 each independently represents an optionally substituted arylene, heteroarylene, cycloalkan-diyl or cycloalken-diyl; Q1 is a bivalent linking group; C1 is an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, alkokycarbonyl or acyloxy; p, q and r each represents a number from 0 to 5 and n is a number from 1 to 3 satisfying 3null(pnullr)nullnnull10; when plural null(B1)p-(Q1)q-(B2)rnull are present, these may be the same or different) was disclosed. 1