{{Short description|Romanian film actress (1923–1994)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Nadia Gray | image = Nadia Gray.jpg | birth_name = Nadia Kujnir | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|11|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bucharest, Romania | death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|6|13|1923|11|23|df=yes}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1949–1968 | spouse = N. Goldenberg<br/>Constantin Cantacuzino (1946–1958) (his death)<br/>Herbert Silverman (1967–1994) (her death)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.romanianculture.org/personalities/Nadia_Gray.htm|title=Romanian Personalities - Nadia Gray|website=www.romanianculture.org|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref> }}
'''Nadia Gray''' (born '''Nadia Kujnir'''; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.
==Biography== Gray was born into a Jewish family<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historia.ro/exclusiv_web/lucian-dobrovicescu/articol/cum-evadat-printul-bazu-cantacuzino-romania-stalinista|title=Cum a evadat prințul Bâzu Cantacuzino din România stalinistă|magazine=Historia|accessdate=25 August 2017|archive-date=16 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116113208/http://www.historia.ro/exclusiv_web/lucian-dobrovicescu/articol/cum-evadat-printul-bazu-cantacuzino-romania-stalinista|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cineartistes.com/fiche-Nadia+Gray.html|title=Nadia Gray |first=Philippe|last=Pelletier|website=www.cineartistes.com|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref> in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman, in Bessarabia (nowadays Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine). 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Romanian Personalities - Nadia Gray|url=https://www.romanianculture.org/personalities/Nadia_Gray.htm|access-date=2020-06-02|website=www.romanianculture.org}}</ref> They were married from 1946 to his death in 1958. Her third husband was Manhattan attorney Herbert Silverman (1912–2003).<ref>{{Cite web |title= Herbert Silverman Obituary (2003) - New York, NY - New York Times| website=Legacy.com |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/herbert-silverman-obituary?id=29750505 |access-date=2023-01-08}}</ref> They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New York City from a stroke.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Westerns...All'Italiana!: Remembering Nadia Gray|date=23 November 2013 |url=https://westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com/2013/11/remembering-nadia-gray.html |access-date=2023-01-08}}</ref> Nadia Gray had a brief affair with Nissim Allony, one of Israel's leading dramatists.
==Partial filmography== Most of Gray's films were non-English language productions. {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''{{ill|L'Inconnu d'un soir|fr}}'' (1949) - Édith aka Marie-Ange * ''The Spider and the Fly'' (1949) - Madeleine Saincaize * ''Monseigneur'' (1949) - La duchesse de Lémoncourt * ''Night Without Stars'' (1951) - Alix Delaisse née Malinay * ''Valley of Eagles'' (1951) - Kara Niemann * ''Wife for a Night'' (1952) - Geraldine * ''Deceit'' (1952) - Anna Comin * ''Top Secret'' (1952) - Tania * ''Puccini'' (1953) - Cristina Vernini * ''{{ill|La vierge du Rhin|ro}}'' (1953) - Maria Meister * ''Ivan, Son of the White Devil'' (1953) - Principessa Alina * ''Finalmente libero!'' (1954) - Carla * ''100 Years of Love'' (1954) - Countess Muriella di Lucoli (segment "Pendolin") * ''Gran Varietà'' (1954) * ''Pietà per chi cade'' (1954) - Anna Savelli * ''Melody of Love'' (1954) - Nadia Sandor * ''Neapolitan Carousel'' (1954) - Pretty tramp * ''The Women Couldn't Care Less'' (1954) - Henrietta Aymes * ''Crossed Swords'' (1954) - Fulvia * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) - Giulia Grisi * ''The Two Orphans'' (1954) - Diane de Vaudrey - countess de Linières * ''Cardinal Lambertini'' (1954) - Isabella di Pietramelara * ''I cinque dell'Adamello'' (1954) - Magda * ''Casta Diva'' (1954) - Giuditta Pasta * ''Sins of Casanova'' (1955) - Margherita Teresa von Kleinwert * ''The Last Five Minutes'' (1955) - Valeria Roberti, moglie di Filippo * ''La moglie è uguale per tutti'' (1955) - Lea * ''Music in the Blood'' (1955) - Gina Martelli * ''Il falco d'oro'' (1955) - Ines della Torre * ''Agguato sul mare'' (1955) - Circe * ''Hengst Maestoso Austria'' (1956) - Gräfin Marika Szilady * ''Folies-Bergère'' (1957) - Suzy Morgan * ''Parola di ladro'' (1957) * ''The Black Devil'' (1957) - Duchessa Lucrezia * ''Sénéchal the Magnificent'' (1957) - La princesse Marida Ludibescu * ''La Parisienne'' (1957) - La reine Greta * ''Vacanze a Ischia'' (1957) - Carla Occhipinti * ''Meine schöne Mama'' (1958) - Mathildes Mutter Maria * ''The Captain's Table'' (1959) - Mrs. Porteous * ''Violent Summer'' (1959) - (uncredited) * ''Muerte al amanecer'' (1959) - Victoria Costa * ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960) - Nadia * ''Le signore'' (1960) - Tatiana Becker * ''Letto a tre piazze'' (1960) - Amalia * ''Maria, Registered in Bilbao'' (1960) - Berta * ''Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle'' (1960) - La dame de compagnie / Dame * ''Mr. Topaze'' (1961) - Suzy * ''Le pavé de Paris'' (1961) - Monique * ''Gioventù di notte'' (1961) - Fulvia * ''Mourir d'amour'' (1961) - Patricia * ''The Crumblers Are Doing Well'' (1961) - Thérèse * ''Le jeu de la vérité'' (1961) - Solange Vérate * ''{{ill|Wenn beide schuldig werden|de}}'' (1962) - Hilde Goetz * ''{{ill|Rocambole (1963 film)|fr|3=Rocambole (film, 1963)|lt=Rocambole}}'' (1963) - Comtesse * ''Maniac'' (1963) - Eve Beynat * ''{{ill|Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa|de}}'' (1963) - Mrs. Button * ''Encounter in Salzburg'' (1964) - Felicitas Wilke * ''The Crooked Road'' (1965) - Cosima * ''The Adventurer of Tortuga'' (1965) - Dona Rosita * ''Winnetou and Old Firehand'' (1966) - Michèle Mercier * ''The Oldest Profession'' (1967) - Nadia (segment "Aujourd'hui") * ''Two for the Road'' (1967) - Francoise Dalbret * ''The Naked Runner'' (1967) - Karen Gisevius {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0336842}} * [http://archives.nypl.org/the/18646 Nadia Gray papers, 1930s-1977], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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