CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amethyst Davis has waited nearly three years for this moment.
The South Carolina native and Winthrop University alumna stars as Mary Jane Richards in Amazon Prime Video’s “The Gray House,” an eight-part limited series premiering Thursday, Feb. 26. The show follows four women who form a spy ring to help the Union win the Civil War — and Davis leads the cast alongside Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head and Hannah James.
Davis portrays the real-life Mary Jane Richards, a formerly enslaved woman whose intelligence and education made her an unlikely but indispensable asset to the Union cause…