James Ellis Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

71 (1954-01-16)
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James Ellis Deakins is an American script supervisor from the East Coast. She double majored in in Latin and Greek in college. She initially worked as film lab technician at DuArtFilm Laboratories in New York City. After moving to Los Angeles, she met English cinematographer Roger Deakins on the film set of Homicide (1991), and the pair married soon after.

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The Shawshank Redemption 1994 (8.7)

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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Mercury Rising 1998 (6.285)

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
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The Siege 1998 (6.307)

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.