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Nadia Gray

Acting Born Nov 27, 1923 Bucarest, Romania 24 credits

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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Known for

The Prisoner

as Nadia Rokovsky, Number 8
Film

La Dolce Vita

as Nadia
Film

Two for the Road

as Françoise Dalbret
Film

The Oldest Profession

as Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui")

Full filmography

  • The Prisoner (1967) as Nadia Rokovsky, Number 8
  • Cinépanorama (1956) as Self
  • The Third Man (1959)
  • La Dolce Vita (1960) as Nadia
  • Two for the Road (1967) as Françoise Dalbret
  • The Oldest Profession (1967) as Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui")
  • Maniac (1963) as Eve Beynat
  • Violent Summer (1959)
  • Top Secret (1952) as Tania
  • Thunder at the Border (1966) as Michele Mercier
  • Mr. Topaze (1961) as Suzy
  • La Parisienne (1957) as La reine Greta
  • Illusions perdues (1966) as La marquise d'Espard
  • The Captain's Table (1959) as Mrs. Daphne Porteous
  • Finalmente libero (1953) as Carla
  • House of Ricordi (1954) as Giulia Grisi
  • Lieben Sie Show ? (1962) as Self
  • The Naked Runner (1967) as Karen Gisevius
  • Sins of Casanova (1954) as Marie-Thérèse
  • Gran varietà (1954)
  • The Game of Truth (1961) as Solange Vérate
  • Inganno (1952) as Anna Comin
  • Valley of the Eagles (1951) as Kara Niemann
  • Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960) as La dame de compagnie / Dame