FrameThrower · Actors · Polly Draper
Polly Draper
3 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2020
Born 15 June 1955 · Gary, Indiana, USA
Polly Carey Draper is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She has received several awards, including a Writers Guild of America Award (WGA), and is noted for speaking in a "trademark throaty voice." She is best known for her starring role as Ellyn Warren on ABC's drama Thirtysomething (1987–91), her directing debut is The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, as well as the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–09).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2020
- Writers Guild of America Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 254 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Polly 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, 57% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Polly 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 254 frames from Polly Draper'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.