Nadia Kujnir-Herescu Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Nadia Gray (23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.Born Nadia Kujnir into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, her mother was from Akkerman (Bessarabia). 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 television series The Prisoner.
I really cut my bridges in film and being always the star, it would be very difficult for me to start at this point in my life to play small roles. - on why she didn't return to films in the late 70s
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Along with her native Romanian, spoke English, French, German, and Italian.
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She met her first husband, Constantin Cantacuzino, during a troubled flight on a commercial Rumanian airliner. Her future husband was the pilot of the plane she was on when one of the engines caught fire. He came back to reassure the passengers. Cantacuzino was purportedly Prince Constantin Cantacuzino. The couple married and eventually fled their Communist-occupied country and lived for a time in Paris, eventually settling in Spain.
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When a child she was such an enthusiastic admirer of King Carol of Rumania that one day she threw down a bunch of flowers from her balcony on the royal cortege passing by. That was a period of anarchist terror and so this caused her family some trouble.