FrameThrower · Actors · Judith Roberts
Judith Roberts
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1977–2017
Born 30 November 1934 · United States
Judith Anna Roberts is an American actress, best known for her roles as Mary Shaw in James Wan's horror film Dead Silence (2007), and as Taslitz, one of "The Golden Girls", in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.
Her first film role was 1977 in Eraserhead. In the following years she appeared in a few other small roles in films and TV series, including Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Her most notable role was Mary Shaw in James Wan's horror film Dead Silence in 2007. That same year, Roberts collaborated with Wan again in his film Death Sentence, playing Judge Shaw.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Judith takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 79% of their frames are night, 73% low key — the look of the work Judith takes.
Time of day
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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 194 frames from Judith Roberts's 3 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.