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Nadia Gray

{{Short description|Romanian film actress (1923–1994)}}

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{{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

| yearsactive = 1949–1968

| spouse = N. Goldenberg
Constantin Cantacuzino (1946–1958) (his death)
Herbert Silverman (1967–1994) (her death){{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}}

}}

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

Biography

Gray was born into a Jewish family{{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}}{{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}} 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.{{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}} They were married from 1946 to his death in 1958. Her third husband was Manhattan attorney Herbert Silverman (1912–2003).{{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}} They were married from 1967 to her death in 1994. She died in New York City from a stroke.{{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}} 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.

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Category:1923 births

Category:1994 deaths

Category:Actresses from Bucharest

Category:Romanian film actresses

Category:20th-century Romanian actresses

Category:Romanian Jews

Category:French people of Romanian-Jewish descent

Category:American people of Romanian-Jewish descent

Category:Romanian emigrants to France

Category:French emigrants to the United States