FrameThrower · Actors · Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge
3 films · 335 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2013–2022
Born 20 September 1986 · Onslow County, North Carolina, USA
Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge is an American actor best known for his role as Alec Hardison on the TNT series Leverage and as MC Ren in the 2015 biopic, Straight Outta Compton. Aldis is the younger brother of actor Edwin Hodge.
In 2007, Hodge was awarded the role of Alec Hardison on the day of his twenty-first birthday. In 2010, he received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Television for this role on Leverage.
How their films are shot
Measured across 335 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Aldis 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, 47% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Aldis 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 335 frames from Aldis Hodge'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.