FrameThrower · Actors · Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya
2 films · 223 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2004–2011
Born 17 July 1975 · Palencia, Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain
Elena Anaya Gutiérrez is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995. Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain on July 17, 1975. She is the youngest of 5 children. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella (Talk to Her). Her best-known Hollywood film role was as a vampire in 2004's Van Helsing, playing Dracula's bride, Aleera. She is also featured in Justin Timberlake's music video for his 2006 single, SexyBack. In 2004, she was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 223 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2004–2011
- Goya Award for Best Actress2012
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award2009
How their films are shot
Measured across 223 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elena takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 68% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Elena 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 223 frames from Elena Anaya's 2 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.