Cast

Samantha Figura

Gina

Samantha is from the suburbs of Chicago and is the youngest of three children. While in Chicago she performed in many theatres with directors from the Steppenwolf Ensemble, The European Repertory Company and About Face Theatre. She has trained with members of The European Repertory Company, Plasticene Ensemble and the co-founder of The Second City, Bernie Sahlins. She moved to Los Angeles and played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, her favorite role to date. The role of Gina in One Day Like Rain is her first lead role in a feature film. She can also be seen in the Emmy-nominated interactive game, "Stranger Adventures." She is proud to be a part of the National Endowment for the Arts Documentary, "Why Shakespeare?" with Tom Hanks, William Shatner, and Michael York. Her most recent credits include a role on "The O.C."

Marina Resa

Jennifer

Marina Resa grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She was bitten by the acting bug after taking a drama class her freshman year of high school. After graduating from college at UC Santa Cruz, Marina realized that she still had a strong desire to act. She began studying with several different San Francisco acting studios and then made a swift choice to pursue her dream full heartedly in Los Angeles. Marina has worked on several independent films including Danny Draven's "Ghost Month" and Foster Corder's "Hormones" both due to be released later this year. She studies acting with the prestigious Susan Batson and her Black Nexxus coaches. Marina is most grateful to have worked on One Day Like Rain because it is so different from anything she has ever seen before. "I appreciated Paul Todisco's vision for the film as a whole and for my character, Jennifer, especially. It is so rare to be given a film in which the characters are dealing with such unique circumstances, and as an actor, I was thrilled by the prospect."

Jesse Eisenberg

Mark

Jesse has appeared in the films "Roger Dodger," "The Squid and the Whale," "The Emperor's Club," "Cursed" and the upcoming "The Living Wake" and "The Education of Charlie Banks," in the title role. He has most recently shot "Spring Break in Bosnia" opposite Richard Gere and Terrence Howard. Jesse has also starred alongside Al Pacino and Shawn Hatosy in the play "Orphans."

Trevor Zacharias

Stefan

Trevor Zacharias is a recent graduate of UCLA's school of Theater Film and Television where he performed in the Francis Ford Coppola One Acts. Trevor is also a writer and is proud to be represented by Marti Blumenthal at Ampersand Management where his historical epic is currently being shopped. He is also developing a pilot and just completed his third script about the life and times of Johnny Weissmuller. He is honored to be a part of One Day Like Rain and had an unbelievable time working with the cast and crew. He would also like to thank writer/director Paul Todisco for his continued support. Above all Trevor would like to thank his parents George and Debbie for being the most amazing human beings in the world.

Dalton Leeb

Jeremy

Dalton was born and raised in a small suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the nearby University of Minnesota where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Math. When not in class, he spent his time watching numerous movies, and developing and acting in short films with his friends, one of which was screened at a small film festival in New York. One day he decided to pack up his car and drive halfway across the country to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Once here, he began studying at Playhouse West under Robert Carnegie. He recently appeared in an original play called "Devil's Night" at The Sherry Theater in North Hollywood, and has worked in several independent short films. One Day Like Rain marks his feature film debut.

Marisa Petroro

Tatiana

You can currently catch this Italian New Jersey native on NBC'S hit game show, DEAL OR NO DEAL, as case holder #18. Marisa Petroro recently had a supporting role opposite Paul Rudd in RENO 911!: MIAMI as his Druglord Girlfriend and also guest starred on COMEDY CENTRAL'S season premiere of Reno 911! as Heidi, The Hotty's Hot Wing Waitress. Her other recent TV credits include LAS VEGAS, ACCORDING TO JIM and SCRUBS, to name a few. On the festival route, Marisa has had supporting roles in PUMPKIN with Christina Ricci, SEX, POLITICS & COCKTAILS, A LITTLE LIGHT with Alan Thicke, TERMINAL with Brian Bloom and LUCID with MARK FEUERSTEIN. Her upcoming film projects include EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ITALIAN with Penny Marshall and GOOD GOD, BAD DOG with Tom Sizemore. Marisa is a survivor of a rare childhood cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma and currently volunteers her time in promoting awareness for the disease.

William Benz

Ian

William was born in 1946 near fertile fields of the Ohio River Valley which his German forbears had farmed continuously since immigrating to the United States in the 1860’s. As a young child, while roaming the Seven Hills of Cincinnati, he encountered a statue of Romulus and Remis being suckled by a She-Wolf and was never the same again. Searching for its deeper meaning, he found all his teachers tongue-tied with embarrassment and thus, realized that acting was a way of life. It was through this early epiphany that he learned a vital lesson– the immediate image is more important than all explanations that follow.
During his teenage years people interpreted his reclusive wanderings and interest in the supernatural as signs of being a religious prodigy and predicted he would become a famous Baptist evangelist, but the mystical lineage of his maternal Urgroßmutter would prevail and during his twenties he turned to the study of Entheogens, Alchemy and the Occult. Accordingly, his life has been blessed with strange and wonderful magnificence, culminating in his alliance with the beautiful Maria. Being asked by the Director to play himself in One Day Like Rain, IAN became William’s acting debut.
He credits the films of Kurosawa, Herzog, Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky, Wojciech, and Medem as his teachers. As were the actors: Dennis Hopper, Rutger Hauer, Sir John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Jürgen Prochnow, and Klaus Kinski (who he feels, is still, even in death, nearly a god).