FrameThrower · Actors · Brit Marling
Brit Marling
4 films · 261 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2011–2014
Born 7 August 1982 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Brit Heyworth Marling is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian.
Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 261 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2011–2014
- San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress2011
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award2011
- Alfred P. Sloan Prize2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 261 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brit takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Brit takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 261 frames from Brit Marling's 4 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.