FrameThrower · Actors · Ricki Lake
Ricki Lake
3 films · 179 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2017
Born 21 September 1968 · Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Ricki Pamela Lake is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray, for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
She is also known for her talk show, Ricki Lake, which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When the show debuted, she was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a syndicated talk show at the time. In late 2012, Lake began hosting a second syndicated talk show, The Ricki Lake Show.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 179 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2017
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host2013
- Aftonbladet TV Prize1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 179 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ricki 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, 49% of their frames are day — the look of the work Ricki takes.
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Lighting
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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 179 frames from Ricki Lake'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.