FrameThrower · Actors · Rachel Ticotin
Rachel Ticotin
3 films · 335 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1990–2004
Born 1 November 1958 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Rachel Ticotin Strauss is an American film and television actress. She's best known for her roles as Director Tyson in Superintellegince, Lt. Arleen Gonzales on NBC's Law & Order: LA, Christina Lowell in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1 & 2, Mariana Garcia Guerrero in Man on Fire, Dr. Martinez in Something's Gotta Give, Laura Roam on the FOX series Skin, Guard Sally Bishop in Con Air, Rachel Taper in Turbulence, Doña Inez in Don Juan DeMarco, Melina in Total Recall (1990), and Teresa Storm on the ABC series Ohara.
She was married to actor David Caruso from 1984 to 1987, with whom she has a daughter Greta, born in 1984. Since 1998, she has been married to actor Peter Strauss.
How their films are shot
Measured across 335 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rachel 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, 56% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Rachel 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 335 frames from Rachel Ticotin'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.