FrameThrower · Actors · Brian Tyree Henry
Brian Tyree Henry
11 films · 995 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2018–2024
Born 31 March 1982 · Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Brian Tyree Henry is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role as rapper Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Henry had a guest role in This Is Us in 2017 and had his film breakthrough in 2018 with roles in Steve McQueen's heist film Widows and Barry Jenkins' romantic drama If Beale Street Could Talk. He has since appeared in Child's Play (2019), Joker (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Bullet Train (2022), and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). He portrayed Phastos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 995 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Brian takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2024 · Bernie Hayes
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 · Jeff Morales (voice)
Causeway
· James
Bullet Train
2022 · Lemon
Godzilla Vs. Kong
2021 · Bernie Hayes
Eternals
2021 · Phastos
Child's Play
2019 · Detective Mike Norris
Hotel Artemis
2018 · Lev / Honolulu
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · Jefferson Davis (voice)
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018 · Daniel Carty
Widows
2018 · Jamal Manning
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 995 frames from Brian Tyree Henry's 11 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.