Nadia Gray
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Born |
Nadia Kujnir 23 November 1923 Bucharest, Romania |
Died |
13 June 1994 70) New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged
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 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).
Personal life
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. 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)
- Valley of Eagles (1951)
- Top Secret (1952)
- Wife For a Night (1952)
- Finalmente libero! (1954)
- House of Ricordi (1954)
- The Two Orphans (1954)
- Casta Diva (1954)
- The Women Couldn't Care Less (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)
- Winnetou and Old Firehand (1966)
- The Oldest Profession (1967)
- Two for the Road (1967)
- The Naked Runner (1967)
References
- ↑ "Romanian Personalities - Nadia Gray". Romanianculture.org. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ↑ "Cum a evadat prinţul Bâzu Cantacuzino din România stalinistă". Historia.ro. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ↑ Pelletier, Philippe. "Nadia Gray - CinéArtistes.com". Cineartistes.com. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
External links
- Nadia Gray on IMDb
- Nadia Gray at AllMovie
- Nadia Gray papers, 1930s-1977, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts