Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray
Born	Nadia Kujnir (1923-11-23)23 November 1923 Bucharest, Romania
Died	13 June 1994(1994-06-13) (aged 70) New York, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949-1968
Spouse(s)	Constantin Cantacuzino (1946-1958) (his death) Herbert Silverman (1967-1994) (her death)[1]

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

Born Nadia Kujnir into a Jewish family^[2][3] 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.

References

External links

• Nadia Gray at the Internet Movie Database
• Nadia Gray at AllMovie
• Nadia Gray papers, 1930s-1977, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts