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Nadia Gray (23 November, 1923 – 13 June, 1994) was a Romanian-born film actress.
Born Nadia Kujnir-Herescu in Bucharest, 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 most well-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 TV series The Prisoner.
She was first married to Constantin Cantacuzino, one of Romania's top fighter aces of the war and an aristocrat, possibly a prince,[citation needed] from 1946 to his death in 1958. during her time in paris she had had a brief affair with the leading israeli playwright nissim alloni. Her second husband was Manhattan attorney Herbert Silverman. They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New York.
Partial filmography
Most of Gray's films were non-English-language productions.
- The Spider and the Fly (1949)
- Top Secret (1952)
- Casa Ricordi (1954)
- The Captain's Table (1959)
- La dolce vita (1960)
- Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960)
- Mr. Topaze (1961)
- Maniac (1963)
- The Oldest Profession (1967)
- Two for the Road (1967)
- The Naked Runner (1967)
External links
Categories:- 1923 births
- 1994 deaths
- Romanian actors
- European actor stubs
- Romanian people stubs
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