FrameThrower · Actors · Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin
7 films · 538 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1983–2007
Born 16 April 1954 · New York City, New York, USA
Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner, and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as Tender Mercies (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Big Easy (1986), Johnny Handsome, and Sea of Love (both 1989).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 538 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1983–2007
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series1998
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1998
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play2011
- Theatre World Award2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 538 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ellen takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 47% natural — the look of the work Ellen 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 538 frames from Ellen Barkin's 7 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.