Portrait of Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray

Acting

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. Source: Article "Nadia Gray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0

Born: November 27, 1923

Place of Birth: Bucarest, Romania

Filmography

1967
The Prisoner

as Nadia Rokovsky, Number 8

1967
The Naked Runner

as Karen Gisevius

1967
Two for the Road

as Françoise Dalbret

1967
The Oldest Profession

as Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui")

1966
Thunder at the Border

as Michele Mercier

1966
Illusions perdues

as La marquise d'Espard

1965
Adventurer of Tortuga

as Doña Rosita

1965
1964
Encounters in Salzburg

as Felicitas Willke

1963
Maniac

as Eve Beynat

1963
Rocambole

as Comtesse

1961
The Game of Truth

as Solange Vérate

1961
To Die of Love

as Patricia

1961
Lady Windermere's Fan

as Mrs. Erlynne

1961
Mr. Topaze

as Suzy

1960
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

as La dame de compagnie / Dame

1960
1960
Death at Dawn

as Victoria

1960
Death at Dawn

as Victoria Costa

1960
Le signore

as Tatiana Becker

1960
1959
The Captain's Table

as Mrs. Daphne Porteous

1958
1957
Holiday Island

as Carla Occhipinti

1957
La Parisienne

as La reine Greta

1957
Sénéchal the Magnificent

as La princesse Marida Ludibescu

1957
The Black Devil

as Duchessa Lucrezia

1957
1956
1955
1955
Der goldene Falke

as Ines Della Torre

1955
It Happens in Roma

as Valeria Roberti, moglie di Filippo

1954
Casta diva

as Giuditta Pasta

1954
Il cardinale Lambertini

as Gabriella di Roccasibalda

1954
Sins of Casanova

as Marie-Thérèse

1954
The Two Orphans

as Diana Contessa de Linières

1954
House of Ricordi

as Giulia Grisi

1954
Neapolitan Carousel

as la bella stracciona

1954
1954
Dames Don't Care

as Henietta Aymes

1954
Pietà per chi cade

as Anna Savelli

1954
100 Years of Love

as Countess Muriella di Lucoli (segment "Pendolin")

1953
1953
1953
Rhine Virgin

as Maria Meister, la fille du patron de la péniche

1953
Puccini

as Cristina Vernini

1952
Top Secret

as Tania

1952
Melody of Love

as Nadia Sandor

1952
Inganno

as Anna Comin

1952
Wife for a Night

as Geraldine

1951
Valley of the Eagles

as Kara Niemann

1951
Night Without Stars

as Alix Delaisse nee Malinay

1949
Monsignor

as The Duchess of Lémoncourt

1949
The Spider and the Fly

as Madeleine Saincaize

1949