Nadia Gray

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. 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
(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
(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
The Women Couldn't Care Less (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
Le avventure di Giacomo 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 (1956) - Suzy Morgan
Parola di ladro (1957)
The Black Devil (1957) - Duchessa Lucrezia
Sénéchal le magnifique (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
Les croulants se portent bien (1961) - Thérèse
Le jeu de la vérité (1961) - Solange Vérate
(1962) - Hilde Goetz
(1963) - Comtesse
Maniac (1963) - Eve Beynat
Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa (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
1923 births
1994 deaths
Actresses from Bucharest
Romanian film actresses
20th-century Romanian actresses
Romanian Jews
French people of Romanian-Jewish descent
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Romanian emigrants to France
French emigrants to the United States