Jill Gray Savarase (born 1969) is an American actress best known for her role of "Faith" in the cult film Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door, [1] the first American feature film adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis .
Gray Savarese grew up in Pickerington, Ohio. After a career as an actress and fortune teller, she attended Yale University through a program for non-traditional students [2] and completed her bachelor's degree in linguistics in 2003. She founded a business designing and selling women's handbags, which she sold in 2004. [3] [4] Additionally, she opened up an agency for American Sign Language interpreters. [5] [6] In this capacity, she interpreted for such notable people as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Sonia Sotomayor.
Gray Savarese is vice president of a film distribution company. [7] She is also a film producer and her production company Gray Savarese Films [8] has produced several films, including Catching Up at IMDb , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. [9] [10]
Gray Savarese was producer [11] on the feature film Tango Shalom at IMDb the production of which was blessed by Pope Francis and quoted in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano , "I was pleased to learn of the film, Tango Shalom, which is intended to foster the values of fraternal solidarity and peace on a global level... Upon all involved in the production of the film, I invoke abundant divine blessings". [12]