Born Nadia Kujnir-Herescu, Nadia Gray married a Rumanian prince and the two of them fled from Rumania after the communist take-over; they moved to Paris, where she began her film career in 1948. Soon she played cosmopolitan leads and second leads in French, British, and American films. She was most memorable in Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960), in which she played a bored, rich beauty who performs an intriguing mink-coated striptease during an orgy. Widowed in the '50s, she married a Manhattan lawyer in the late '60s and moved to New York, giving up her screen career. Afterwards, she occasionally headlined nightclub or cabaret shows.