Nadia Gray

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Romanian film actress (1923–1994)

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::summary Romanian film actress (1923–1994) ::

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nameNadia Gray
imageNadia Gray.jpg
birth_nameNadia Kujnir
birth_date
birth_placeBucharest, Romania
death_date
death_placeNew York City, New York, U.S.
occupationActress
yearsactive1949–1968
spouseN. Goldenberg
Constantin Cantacuzino (1946–1958) (his death)
Herbert Silverman (1967–1994) (her death)
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| name = Nadia Gray | image = Nadia Gray.jpg | birth_name = Nadia Kujnir | birth_date = | birth_place = Bucharest, Romania | death_date = | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 1949–1968 | spouse = N. Goldenberg Constantin Cantacuzino (1946–1958) (his death) Herbert Silverman (1967–1994) (her death)

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

Biography

Gray was born into a Jewish family 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. 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. 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.

References

References

  1. "Romanian Personalities - Nadia Gray".
  2. "Cum a evadat prințul Bâzu Cantacuzino din România stalinistă".
  3. Pelletier, Philippe. "Nadia Gray".
  4. "Romanian Personalities - Nadia Gray".
  5. "Herbert Silverman Obituary (2003) - New York, NY - New York Times".
  6. (23 November 2013). "Westerns...All'Italiana!: Remembering Nadia Gray".

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