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Ella Joyce

Ella Joyce

2 films · 175 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20022019

Born 12 June 1954 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Ella Joyce is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Eleanor Emerson on the FOX sitcom Roc, Sarah in Tyler Perry's Temptation, Earlene in Our Family Wedding, Betty Webb in Selma, Lord, Selma, Detective Waller in Set It Off, and McCabe in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. She also had a recurring role as Jasmine on the sitcom My Wife & Kids.

She has received numerous awards, nominations, and accolades for her performances in the theater, including the New York AUDELCO and the NAACP Image Nomination (for theater and television). She is also a recipient of the Spirit Of Detroit Award from the Mayor's Office in 1998.

​Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 175 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ella 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, 40% of their frames are night, 59% natural — the look of the work Ella takes.

Time of day

Night40%
Day36%
Interior21%

Lighting

Natural59%
Low key34%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium49%
Closeup33%
Fullbody9%
Wide7%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
Low angle9%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral71%
Tense11%
Lonely7%
Ominous7%

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 175 frames from Ella Joyce'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.