FrameThrower · Actors · Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy
5 films · 519 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1999–2006
Born 10 November 1977 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA · died 20 December 2009
Brittany Anne Murphy-Monjack was an American actress and singer. Born in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and pursued a career in acting. Her breakthrough role was as Tai Frasier in Clueless (1995), followed by supporting roles in independent films such as Freeway (1996) and Bongwater (1998). She made her stage debut in a Broadway production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge in 1997 before appearing as Daisy Randone in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and as Lisa Swenson in Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999).
In the 2000s, Murphy appeared in Don't Say a Word (2001) alongside Michael Douglas, and alongside Eminem in 8 Mile (2002), for which she gained critical recognition.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 519 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brittany takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 59% natural — the look of the work Brittany 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 519 frames from Brittany Murphy's 5 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.