FrameThrower · Actors · Alison Pill
Alison Pill
6 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2024
Born 27 November 1985 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alison Pill is a Canadian actress and a former child actress. Pill began her career at age 12, appearing in numerous films and television series. She transitioned to adult roles and her breakthrough came with the television series The Book of Daniel (2006). That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2006). Pill had prominent roles in the films Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), Plain Truth (2004), Milk (2008), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Vice (2018), the television series In Treatment (2009), The Pillars of the Earth (2010), The Newsroom (2012–2014), American Horror Story: Cult (2017), Star Trek: Picard (2020–2022), Devs (2020), and Them (2021).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2024
- Gemini Award2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 389 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alison takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Alison 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 389 frames from Alison Pill's 6 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.