FrameThrower · Actors · Sonia Braga
Sonia Braga
2 films · 388 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1976–2020
Born 8 June 1950 · Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She's known for her Golden Globe Award–nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (first released in 1976). She was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award for her role in for the 1994 television film The Burning Season. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #24 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 388 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1976–2020
- Platino Award for Best Actress2017
- Platino Honorary Award2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 388 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sonia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Sonia 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 388 frames from Sonia Braga's 2 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.