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Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

7 films · 572 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20082014

Born 5 March 1974 · Miami, Florida, USA

Eva de la Caridad Méndez, known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American retired actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut(2000).

Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 572 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20082014

  • Giffoni Film Festival2009

How their films are shot

Measured across 572 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Eva 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, 45% of their frames are night, 44% natural — the look of the work Eva takes.

Time of day

Night45%
Day45%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural44%
Low key33%
High key12%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium52%
Wide19%
Closeup17%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle7%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense15%
Lonely9%
Ominous5%

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

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 572 frames from Eva Mendes'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.