FrameThrower · Actors · Victoria Abril
Victoria Abril
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1983–1993
Born 4 July 1959 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Victoria Mérida Rojas, better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! by director Pedro Almodóvar.
Born in Malaga, Abril became widely known in Spain in 1976 when she appeared in the show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez for two years. In addition to working in Spain, she has made films in France, Italy, and Iceland. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Amantes.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1983–1993
- Silver Bear for Best Actress1991
- Goya Award for Best Actress1996
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts2004
- European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award2002
- Silver Shell for Best Actress1995
- Premios Ondas1995
- Silver Shell for Best Actress1987
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Victoria 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 night — the look of the work Victoria 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 195 frames from Victoria Abril'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.