FrameThrower · Actors · Maria Bello
Maria Bello
9 films · 972 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2003–2016
Born 18 April 1967 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Maria Elena Bello is an American actress and singer. She started her acting career in small off-Broadway plays, such as The Killer Inside Me, Small Town Gals with Big Problems, and Urban Planning. Bello's big break came when producers Kerry Lenhart and John J. Sakmar cast her as Mrs. Smith in the spy show Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 972 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2003–2016
- Max Mara Face of the Future Award2006
How their films are shot
Measured across 972 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Maria 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, 46% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Maria takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 972 frames from Maria Bello'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.