FrameThrower · Actors · Barkhad Abdi
Barkhad Abdi
2 films · 67 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2017
Born 10 April 1985 · Mogadishu, Somalia
Barkhad Abdi is a Somali-American actor. He made his acting debut as the pirate Abduwali Muse in the biographical drama film Captain Phillips (2013), which earned him a British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, along with Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
Following his breakthrough, Abdi appeared in the films Eye in the Sky (2015), Good Time (2017), The Pirates of Somalia (2017), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Outside of film, he was featured as a series regular on the second season of the Hulu horror anthology Castle Rock (2019) and had a recurring role in the Showtime satirical comedy series The Curse (2023).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 67 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2017
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 67 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barkhad takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 85% of their frames are night, 79% low key — the look of the work Barkhad 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 67 frames from Barkhad Abdi's 2 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.