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Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray

Acting1923Bucarest, Romania

Biography

Nadia Gray (born Nadia Kujnir; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.

Gray was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman (Bessarabia). 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).

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.

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Acting History

1967
The Oldest Profession
as Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui")
The Naked Runner
as Karen Gisevius
Two for the Road
as Françoise Dalbret
The Prisoner
TVas Nadia Rokovsky, Number 81 eps
1966
Thunder at the Border
as Michele Mercier
1965
1964
Encounters in Salzburg
as Felicitas Willke
1963
Maniac
as Eve Beynat
Rocambole
as Comtesse
1962
1960
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as La dame de compagnie / Dame
Death at Dawn
as Victoria Costa
Le signore
as Tatiana Becker
Cinépanorama
TVas Self1 eps
1959
The Captain's Table
as Mrs. Daphne Porteous
1958
1957
La Parisienne
as La reine Greta
The Black Devil
as Duchessa Lucrezia
Sénéchal the Magnificent
as La princesse Marida Ludibescu
Holiday Island
as Carla Occhipinti
1956
Hengst Maestoso Austria
as Gräfin Marika Szilady
1955
Musik im Blut
as Gina Martelli
It Happens in Roma
as Valeria Roberti, moglie di Filippo
Der goldene Falke
as Ines Della Torre
1954
100 Years of Love
as Countess Muriella di Lucoli (segment "Pendolin")
Dames Don't Care
as Henietta Aymes
House of Ricordi
as Giulia Grisi
Il cardinale Lambertini
as Gabriella di Roccasibalda
Neapolitan Carousel
as la bella stracciona
Pietà per chi cade
as Anna Savelli
The Two Orphans
as Diana Contessa de Linières
Sins of Casanova
as Marie-Thérèse
Casta diva
as Giuditta Pasta
1953
Rhine Virgin
as Maria Meister, la fille du patron de la péniche
Puccini
as Cristina Vernini
1952
Wife for a Night
as Geraldine
Top Secret
as Tania
Inganno
as Anna Comin
Melody of Love
as Nadia Sandor
1951
Night Without Stars
as Alix Delaisse nee Malinay
Valley of the Eagles
as Kara Niemann
1949
The Spider and the Fly
as Madeleine Saincaize
Monsignor
as The Duchess of Lémoncourt
Liebling der Welt
as Gaby Desroses

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11/27/1923
Day of Death
6/13/1994
Place of Birth
Bucarest, Romania