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André Holland

André Holland

4 films · 191 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20142022

Born 28 December 1979 · Bessemer, Alabama, USA

André Holland is an American actor. Throughout his career, Holland has acted in film, television, and theatre productions. On television, he has starred as Dr. Algernon Edwards in the Cinemax series The Knick (2014–2015) and as Matt Miller in the FX series American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016). His biggest role on film was playing Kevin in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight (2016).

How their films are shot

Measured across 191 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work André 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, 48% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work André takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night43%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural43%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium43%
Closeup26%
Wide23%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral72%
Tense17%
Lonely8%

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 191 frames from André Holland'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.