FrameThrower · Actors · Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue
9 films · 661 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1984–2018
Born 6 October 1963 · Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Elisabeth Judson Shue is an American actress, best known for her starring roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), and Piranha 3D (2010). She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She starred as Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2012 to 2015. More recently she had supporting roles in Battle of the Sexes (2017) and Death Wish (2018). She was also a series regular in the first season of the Amazon series The Boys (2019).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 661 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1984–2018
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead1995
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress1995
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress1995
How their films are shot
Measured across 661 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elisabeth takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Elisabeth takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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