Nadia Gray (Nadia Kujnir-Herescu)
Biography
Bucharest, Romania
Born Nadia Kujnir-Herescu in Bucharest, Romania, on November 23, 1923, to a Russian father and a Bessarabian mother, the future actress Nadia Gray was raised there. She met first husband Constantin Cantacuzino (1905-1958), a Romanian aviator and noted WWII fighter ace, while she was a passenger on one of his commercial air flights. She couple fled the country during the Communist takeover of Romania in the late 1940s and emigrated to Paris. There Nadia enjoyed a vast international career as a Cosmopolitan lead and second lead on stage and in films. The couple eventually settled in Spain. Read more...
Following the death of her first husband in Spain in 1958 (he was only 52), Nadia continued to film and settled permanently in America in the late 60s after meeting and marrying second husband Herbert Silverman, a New York lawyer. She retired from films completely in 1976 and began headlining as a singing cabaret star. The trend-setting Russian-Romanian beauty died of a stroke in Manhattan on June 13, 1994 at age 70 and was survived by her second husband and two stepchildren.
Following the death of her first husband in Spain in 1958 (he was only 52), Nadia continued to film and settled permanently in America in the late 60s after meeting and marrying second husband Herbert Silverman, a New York lawyer. She retired from films completely in 1976 and began headlining as a singing cabaret star. The trend-setting Russian-Romanian beauty died of a stroke in Manhattan on June 13, 1994 at age 70 and was survived by her second husband and two stepchildren.
Actor

Character:
Madeleine Saincaize
The Spider and the Fly 1949
1

Character:
Giulia Grisi
Casa Ricordi 1954
6

Character:
Gina Martelli
Musik im Blut 1955
1

Character:
Mrs. Porteous
The Captain's Table 1959
4

Character:
Nadia
La Dolce Vita 1960
17

Character:
Francoise Dalbret
Two for the Road 1967
1

Character:
Karen Gisevius
The Naked Runner 1967
4

Character:
Pretty tramp
Neapolitan Carousel 1954
0

Character:
Michèle Mercier
Winnetou and Old Firehand 1966
0

Character:
Magda Keller
Court Martial 1965
0

Character:
Felicitas Wilke
Begegnung in Salzburg 1964
0