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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-11-27 (101 years old)

Place of Birth

Bucarest, Romania

Nadia Gray

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

Known For

Acting

1967

Two for the Road as Françoise Dalbret
The Naked Runner as Karen Gisevius
The Oldest Profession as Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui")
The Prisoner as Nadia Rokovsky, Number 8

1966

Thunder at the Border as Michele Mercier
Illusions perdues as La marquise d'Espard

1965

Adventurer of Tortuga as Doña Rosita

1964

Encounters in Salzburg as Felicitas Willke

1963

Maniac as Eve Beynat
Rocambole as Comtesse

1962

1961

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as La dame de compagnie / Dame
Death at Dawn as Victoria
La Dolce Vita as Nadia
Death at Dawn as Victoria Costa
Le signore as Tatiana Becker

1959

1958

1957

Sénéchal the Magnificent as La princesse Marida Ludibescu
Holiday Island as Carla Occhipinti
Parola di ladro as Ursula
The Black Devil as Duchessa Lucrezia
La Parisienne as La reine Greta

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

House of Ricordi as Giulia Grisi
Dames Don't Care as Henietta Aymes
Il cardinale Lambertini as Gabriella di Roccasibalda
100 Years of Love as Countess Muriella di Lucoli (segment "Pendolin")
Neapolitan Carousel as la bella stracciona
Pietà per chi cade as Anna Savelli
Sins of Casanova as Marie-Thérèse
Crossed Swords as Fulvia
The Two Orphans as Diana Contessa de Linières
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

Valley of the Eagles as Kara Niemann
Night Without Stars as Alix Delaisse nee Malinay

1949

The Spider and the Fly as Madeleine Saincaize
Liebling der Welt as Gaby Desroses
Monsignor as The Duchess of Lémoncourt