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Jane Adams

Jane Adams

9 films · 691 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19922020

Born 1 April 1965 · Washington, D.C., USA

Jane Adams is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls. Her film roles include Happiness (1998), Wonder Boys (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Little Children (2006). She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1999–2000), and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for the HBO series Hung (2009–11).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 691 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19922020

  • Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play1994
  • Theatre World Award1991

How their films are shot

Measured across 691 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jane 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, 54% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Jane takes.

Time of day

Night54%
Day37%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key46%
Natural40%
High key11%

Shot size

Medium54%
Closeup23%
Wide15%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level90%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral67%
Lonely13%
Tense12%
Ominous4%

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 691 frames from Jane Adams's 9 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.