FrameThrower · Actors · Adriana Barraza
Adriana Barraza
3 films · 184 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2006–2014
Born 5 March 1956 · Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Adriana Barraza González is a Mexican actress, acting teacher, and director.
In 1999 director Alejandro González Iñárritu cast her as the mother of Gael García Bernal's character in Amores perros, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006, she collaborated with Iñárritu again in Babel, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Barraza is known in Mexico as Master Barraza from her partnership with Mexican director Sergio Jiménez, known as El Profe. They created the Actors Workshop in Mexico City, teaching and developing their own version of Method acting.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 184 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Adriana takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Adriana takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 184 frames from Adriana Barraza's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.