Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray (23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.

Born Nadia Kujnir into a Jewish family 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)
• Finalmente libero! (1954)
• Casa Ricordi (1954)
• The Two Orphans (1954)
• Casta Diva (1954)
• I cinque dell'Adamello (1954)
• Pietà per chi cade (1954)
• The Last Five Minutes (1955)
• The Black Devil (1957)
• The Captain's Table (1959)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Le signore (1960)
• Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960)
• Mr. Topaze (1961)
• Maniac (1963)
• Encounter in Salzburg (1964)
• The Oldest Profession (1967)
• Two for the Road (1967)
• The Naked Runner (1967)