FrameThrower · Actors · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
3 films · 199 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1983–1999
Born 17 November 1958 · Lombard, Illinois, USA
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of West Side Story, and went on to appear in the 1983 film Scarface as Al Pacino's character's sister, Gina Montana, which proved to be her breakout role. For her role as Carmen in the 1986 film The Color of Money, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include The Abyss (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and The Perfect Storm (2000). In 2003, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha.
How their films are shot
Measured across 199 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mary 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, 60% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Mary takes.
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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 199 frames from Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio'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.