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LisaGay Hamilton

LisaGay Hamilton

6 films · 321 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19952011

Born 25 March 1964 · Los Angeles, California, USA

LisaGay Hamilton is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage. She is best known for her role as secretary/lawyer Rebecca Washington on the legal drama The Practice (1997–2003). She also portrayed Melissa Thoreau on the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011), Celia Jones on the Netflix series House of Cards (2016), Suzanne Simms on the Hulu series Chance (2016), and Kayla Price in The First (2018), also by Hulu.

Hamilton's film credits include roles in 12 Monkeys (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Beloved (1998), True Crime (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Soloist (2009), Beastly (2011), Beautiful Boy (2018), and Vice (2018).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 321 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19952011

  • Peabody Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 321 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work LisaGay takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work LisaGay takes.

Time of day

Day46%
Night42%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural43%
Low key39%
High key14%

Shot size

Medium47%
Closeup25%
Wide19%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle10%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral61%
Tense21%
Lonely9%

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 321 frames from LisaGay Hamilton's 6 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.