Jill Gray Savarase (born 1969) is an American actress best known for her role of "Faith" in the

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''Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door'', the first American feature film adaptation of

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's short story '' The Metamorphosis''. Gray Savarese grew up in

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. After a career as an actress and fortune teller, she attended

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through a program for non-traditional students 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. Additionally, she opened up an agency for

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interpreters. In this capacity, she interpreted for such notable people as

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, and Sonia Sotomayor. Gray Savarese is vice president of a film distribution company. She is also a film producer and her production company Gray Savarese Films has produced several films, including , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Gray Savarese was producer on the feature film 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"."Tango Shalom"
''L'Osservatore Romano'', 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Savarese, Jill Gray 1969 births American actresses Living people People from Pickerington, Ohio 21st-century American women