FrameThrower · Actors · Elizabeth Peña
Elizabeth Peña
4 films · 238 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2005
Born 23 September 1959 · Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA · died 14 October 2014
Elizabeth Maria Peña was an American actress, and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own right. Peña was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, daughter of Estella Margarita (née Toirac), an arts administrator and producer, and Mario Peña, the Cuban-born actor, writer, and director who jointly founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble. It is unknown whether Peña was named after the town of her birth. Peña graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 238 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elizabeth 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, 48% of their frames are night, 46% natural — the look of the work Elizabeth 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 238 frames from Elizabeth Peña'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.