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Sissy Spacek
9 films · 865 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1973–2025
Born 25 December 1949 · Quitman, Texas, USA
Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 865 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1973–2025
- Academy Award for Best Actress1981
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama2001
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1986
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1980
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2011
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead2001
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast2011
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress2001
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 865 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sissy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Sissy takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
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 865 frames from Sissy Spacek's 9 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.