FrameThrower · Actors · Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda Rubinstein
4 films · 489 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1986–1989
Born 28 May 1933 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · died 27 January 2010
Zelda Rubinstein was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. Playing 'Ginny', she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award winning television series Picket Fences for several seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as seer 'Christina' and was the voice ofSkittles candies in their long-running 'Taste the Rainbow' ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
How their films are shot
Measured across 489 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zelda takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night — the look of the work Zelda 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 489 frames from Zelda Rubinstein's 4 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.