FrameThrower · Actors · Darren Criss
Darren Criss
3 films · 304 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2023
Born 5 February 1987 · San Francisco, California, USA
Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series Glee (2010–2015) and received Emmy and Golden Globe acting awards for his leading role as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018). He has also appeared on Broadway and in film and has released several musical albums.
A founding member and co-owner of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in, and writing most of the music and lyrics for, StarKid's musical production of A Very Potter Musical.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 304 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2023
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2018
How their films are shot
Measured across 304 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Darren 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, 49% of their frames are night, 51% natural — the look of the work Darren takes.
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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 304 frames from Darren Criss'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.