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Anika Noni Rose
3 films · 120 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2018
Born 6 September 1972 · Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA
Anika Noni Rose is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Tiana in The Princess and the Frog (2009). She was named a Disney Legend in 2011.
Rose starred as Lorrell Robinson in the Academy Award-winning film Dreamgirls (2006). Her contribution to the film's soundtrack earned her a nomination for a Grammy Award. She is also known for her performances in theatre, particularly for starring as Emmie Thibodeaux in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change (2004), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun (2014), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 120 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2018
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical2019
- Disney Legends2011
- Theatre World Award2004
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress2004
How their films are shot
Measured across 120 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Anika 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, 66% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Anika 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 120 frames from Anika Noni Rose'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.