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Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner

3 films · 110 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20122018

Born 19 June 1983 · Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland

Aidan Turner is an Irish actor. He played the roles of Ross Poldark in the 2015–2019 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic, and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human. He played Kíli in The Hobbit film series.

How their films are shot

Measured across 110 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Aidan 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, 50% of their frames are night, 47% natural — the look of the work Aidan takes.

Time of day

Night50%
Day36%
Interior7%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key39%
Chiaroscuro9%

Shot size

Wide41%
Medium38%
Closeup14%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
High angle13%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral56%
Tense16%
Lonely16%
Ominous6%

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 110 frames from Aidan Turner'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.