FrameThrower · Actors · Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan
4 films · 223 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1997–2013
Born 19 November 1954 · Pasadena, California, USA
Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career spanning almost five decades.
She made her feature film debut in Mel Stuart's One Is a Lonely Number (1972) follwed by George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) and made her definite breakthrough in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) as Deborah Blake.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 223 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1997–2013
- Theatre World Award1979
How their films are shot
Measured across 223 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kathleen takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Kathleen 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 223 frames from Kathleen Quinlan's 4 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.