Is that Mira Sorvino?

Now, this is curious. It's bewildering.

There's a scene in the middle of Auto Focus (2002) where Bob Crane and his buddy (Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe) invite a couple of girls up to their pad. The girls get high in a hurry, then they take off their tops and do a dance for the guys.

One of the two girls, named "Jill," looks EXACTLY like Mira Sorvino. Is she?

The IMDb does not show Mira Sorvino as a cast member of this movie. Instead, it shows that the role of "Jill" was played by someone named Amber Griebel. No picture is shown for Ms. Griebel, indeed no other info except that she was apparently in one other production, a video.

Still, in Auto Focus this person looks, to me, exactly like Mira Sorvino, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Mighty Aphrodite (1995). So I'm wondering: WHY would she eschew a cast credit for this Bob Crane film?

It cannot be because of the nudity. Ms. Sorvino was topless -- and credited -- in at least one other film, the TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996).

What's really weird is that Mira Sorvino's loving dad, Paul Sorvino, played a key role in the Tom Cruise film The Firm (1993)... and he did not receive on-screen credit for that role, either!

It's a mystery to me, and I wish someone out there would help me solve it.

Are the Sorvinos, dad and daughter, "okay" with playing key roles and not getting credited for them? Or am I wrong and the girl that dances in the Bob Crane movie NOT Mira Sorvino? 'Cause it sure looks like her.

Cheers,
Dan









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