FrameThrower · Actors · Ben Platt
Ben Platt
2 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2022
Born 24 September 1993 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theatre producer Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theatre as a child. He appeared in productions of The Sound of Music (2006) and The Book of Mormon (2012–2015), rising to prominence for originating the title role in the Broadway coming-of-age musical Dear Evan Hansen (2015–2017).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2022
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical2017
- Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album2018
- Time 1002017
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical2017
- Daytime Emmy Award
- Clarence Derwent Awards
- Drama League Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 234 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ben 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, 52% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Ben 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 234 frames from Ben Platt'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.