Nadia Gray
Nadia Gray (23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.
Born Nadia Kujnir into a Jewish family[1][2] in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, 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 masterpiece La Dolce Vita in 1960.
She played Number 8 in "The Chimes of Big Ben", an episode of the 1960s cult television series The Prisoner.
Personal life
She was first married to N. Goldenberg (later Herescu), a wealthy businessman from Chisinau, 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. They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New York City.
Partial filmography
Most of Gray's films were non-English-language productions.
- The Spider and the Fly (1949)
- Night Without Stars (1951)
- Top Secret (1952)
- Wife For a Night (1952)
- Casa Ricordi (1954)
- The Black Devil (1957)
- The Captain's Table (1959)
- La Dolce Vita (1960)
- Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960)
- Mr. Topaze (1961)
- Maniac (1963)
- The Oldest Profession (1967)
- Two for the Road (1967)
- The Naked Runner (1967)
References
External links
- Nadia Gray at the Internet Movie Database
- Nadia Gray at AllMovie
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