FrameThrower · Actors · Andre Royo
Andre Royo
5 films · 363 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2010–2022
Born 18 July 1968 · Bronx, New York, USA
Andre Royo is an American actor, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins on the HBO crime drama series The Wire. Other television appearances include Fringe, Party Down, How to Make It in America, and Empire. In film, he had roles in Shaft (2000), Super (2010), The Spectacular Now (2013), Beautiful Boy (2018), Prospect (2018), and To Leslie (2022). Royo was born in the Bronx, New York of African American and Cuban heritage. He attended Mount Saint Michael Academy in The Bronx from 1982 - 1986. Royo is married to Jane Choi and has a daughter, Stella.
How their films are shot
Measured across 363 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Andre takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Andre 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 363 frames from Andre Royo's 5 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.