FrameThrower · Actors · Chris Messina
Chris Messina
11 films · 854 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2010–2023
Born 11 August 1974 · New York City, New York, USA
Christopher Messina is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for starring as Danny Castellano in the series The Mindy Project (2012–2017), which earned him two nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
He has appeared in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Devil (2010), Argo (2012), Ruby Sparks (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Cake (2014), Birds of Prey (2020), I Care a Lot (2020), Call Jane (2022), Air (2023) and The Boogeyman (2023). Messina wrote, executive produced, and starred in the comedy film Fairhaven (2012).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 854 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2010–2023
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 854 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Chris 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, 49% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Chris takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Boogeyman
2023 · Will Harper
Call Jane
2022 · Will
Ruby Sparks
2012 · Harry
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020 · Victor Zsasz
I Care A Lot
2020 · Dean Ericson
She Dies Tomorrow
2020 · Jason
Live By Night
2016 · Dion Bartolo
Cake
2014 · Jason Bennett
Manglehorn
2014 · Jacob
Palo Alto
2013 · Mitch
Greenberg
2010 · Phillip Greenberg
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 854 frames from Chris Messina'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.