Nadia Gray (born Nadia Kujnir; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.
Biography Gray was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman in Bessarabia (nowadays Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine). She left Romania for Paris in the late 1940s to escape the communist takeover after World War II. Her film debut was in L'Inconnu d'un soir in 1949. Perhaps her best-known role was in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960).
She played a guest role in an episode of the television series The Prisoner ("The Chimes of Big Ben", 1967).
Personal life She was first married to N. Goldenberg (later Herescu), a wealthy businessman from Chișinău, then to Constantin Cantacuzino, a Romanian aristocrat who was one of Romania's top fighter aces of the war. They were married from 1946 to his death in 1958. Her third husband was Manhattan attorney Herbert Silverman (1912–2003). They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New York City from a stroke.
Partial filmography Most of Gray's films were non-English language productions.
(1949) - Édith aka Marie-Ange The Spider and the Fly (1949) - Madeleine Saincaize Monseigneur (1949) - La duchesse de Lémoncourt Night Without Stars (1951) - Alix Delaisse née Malinay Valley of Eagles (1951) - Kara Niemann Wife for a Night (1952) - Geraldine Deceit (1952) - Anna Comin Top Secret (1952) - Tania Puccini (1953) - Cristina Vernini Rhine Virgin (1953) - Maria Meister Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953) - Principessa Alina Finalmente libero! (1954) - Carla 100 Years of Love (1954) - Countess Muriella di Lucoli (segment "Pendolin") Gran Varietà (1954) Pietà per chi cade (1954) - Anna Savelli Melody of Love (1954) - Nadia Sandor Neapolitan Carousel (1954) - Pretty tramp Dames Don't Care (1954) - Henrietta Aymes Crossed Swords (1954) - Fulvia House of Ricordi (1954) - Giulia Grisi The Two Orphans (1954) - Diane de Vaudrey - countess de Linières Cardinal Lambertini (1954) - Isabella di Pietramelara I cinque dell'Adamello (1954) - Magda Casta Diva (1954) - Giuditta Pasta Sins of Casanova (1955) - Margherita Teresa von Kleinwert The Last Five Minutes (1955) - Valeria Roberti, moglie di Filippo La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955) - Lea Music in the Blood (1955) - Gina Martelli Il falco d'oro (1955) - Ines della Torre Agguato sul mare (1955) - Circe Hengst Maestoso Austria (1956) - Gräfin Marika Szilady Folies-Bergère (1957) - Suzy Morgan Parola di ladro (1957) The Black Devil (1957) - Duchessa Lucrezia Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957) - La princesse Marida Ludibescu La Parisienne (1957) - La reine Greta Vacanze a Ischia (1957) - Carla Occhipinti Meine schöne Mama (1958) - Mathildes Mutter Maria The Captain's Table (1959) - Mrs. Porteous Violent Summer (1959) - (uncredited) Muerte al amanecer (1959) - Victoria Costa La Dolce Vita (1960) - Nadia Le signore (1960) - Tatiana Becker Letto a tre piazze (1960) - Amalia Maria, Registered in Bilbao (1960) - Berta Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960) - La dame de compagnie / Dame Mr. Topaze (1961) - Suzy Le pavé de Paris (1961) - Monique Gioventù di notte (1961) - Fulvia Mourir d'amour (1961) - Patricia The Crumblers Are Doing Well (1961) - Thérèse Le jeu de la vérité (1961) - Solange Vérate (1962) - Hilde Goetz (1963) - Comtesse Maniac (1963) - Eve Beynat (1963) - Mrs. Button Encounter in Salzburg (1964) - Felicitas Wilke The Crooked Road (1965) - Cosima The Adventurer of Tortuga (1965) - Dona Rosita Winnetou and Old Firehand (1966) - Michèle Mercier The Oldest Profession (1967) - Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui") Two for the Road (1967) - Francoise Dalbret The Naked Runner (1967) - Karen Gisevius
References
External links
Nadia Gray papers, 1930s-1977, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts