FrameThrower · Actors · Danielle Brooks
Danielle Brooks
3 films · 146 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2019–2025
Born 17 September 1989 · Augusta, Georgia, USA
Danielle Brooks is an American actress whose work spans television, film, and Broadway. She first gained widespread recognition as Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), a role that became one of the series’ emotional centers and established her as a major presence on television.
She later reached a broader mainstream audience starring as Leota Adebayo in James Gunn’s HBO series Peacemaker, where her performance played a central role in the show’s balance of action, satire, and character-driven storytelling.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 146 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2019–2025
- Theatre World Award2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 146 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Danielle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Danielle 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 146 frames from Danielle Brooks's 3 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.