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Bai Ling

Bai Ling

3 films · 190 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19942006

Born 10 October 1966 · Chengdu, China

Bai Ling is a Chinese actress with American citizenship, known for her work in the films The Crow, Nixon, Red Corner, Crank: High Voltage, Dumplings, Wild Wild West, Anna and the King, Southland Tales, and Maximum Impact, as well as TV shows Entourage and Lost.

Notably, she won the Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 Hong Kong Film Awards and the 2004 Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan for her role in Dumplings.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 190 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19942006

  • Great Immigrants Award2007

How their films are shot

Measured across 190 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bai 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, 56% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Bai takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day33%
Interior9%

Lighting

Low key45%
Natural29%
High key19%
Chiaroscuro4%

Shot size

Medium43%
Closeup31%
Wide15%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle9%
Low angle8%

Mood

Neutral47%
Tense26%
Ominous13%
Lonely9%

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 190 frames from Bai Ling'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.