FrameThrower · Actors · Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis
5 films · 374 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1996–2010
Born 12 May 1970 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Samantha Mathis is an American actress and trade union leader who serves as the Vice President of SAG-AFTRA. Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume (1990), and later co-starred or appeared in such films as FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The Thing Called Love (1993), Little Women (1994), The American President (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), American Psycho (2000), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012).
How their films are shot
Measured across 374 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Samantha takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Samantha 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 374 frames from Samantha Mathis's 5 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.