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Christopher Meloni

Christopher Meloni

6 films · 378 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19952015

Born 2 April 1961 · Washington, D.C., USA

Christopher Peter Meloni is an American actor. He is known for portraying NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and its spin-off Organized Crime, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

How their films are shot

Measured across 378 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Christopher takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Christopher takes.

Time of day

Night45%
Day42%
Interior7%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key42%
Natural34%
High key14%
Silhouette8%

Shot size

Medium36%
Wide28%
Closeup27%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level72%
Low angle12%
High angle9%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral56%
Tense22%
Lonely8%
Ominous7%

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 378 frames from Christopher Meloni's 6 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.