FrameThrower · Actors · Dana Ivey
Dana Ivey
4 films · 256 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1985–2002
Born 12 August 1941 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Dana Ivey is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).
How their films are shot
Measured across 256 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dana takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Dana 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 256 frames from Dana Ivey's 4 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.