She left Romania for Paris in the late 1940s to escape the Communist takeover after World War II.

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).

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.

[6] Nadia Gray had a brief affair with Nissim Allony, one of Israel's leading dramatists.