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Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

13 films · 991 frames · top-billed in 7 · 20062021

Born 28 November 1984 · Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress and singer. She's best known for her movie roles as Helena Bertinelli / Huntress in Birds of Prey (2020), John McClane's daughter Lucy Gennero-McClane in Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), Holly Keely in The Spectacular Now (2013), Mary Todd Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), and Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 991 frames · top-billed in 7 · 20062021

  • Saturn Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 991 frames from the 13 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 13 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Mary takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day36%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key52%
Natural35%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium51%
Closeup24%
Wide16%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle6%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral51%
Tense26%
Lonely8%
Ominous6%

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 991 frames from Mary Elizabeth Winstead's 13 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.