FrameThrower · Actors · DeWanda Wise
DeWanda Wise
2 films · 55 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2019–2022
Born 30 May 1984 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
DeWanda Wise is an American actress. She has played the lead role as "Nola Darling" in Spike Lee's 2017 Netflix series (10-episodes) She's Gotta Have It- a contemporary update of his 1986 film.
DeWanda was born in Jessup, Maryland and raised in Woodlawn, Laurel and Baltimore. She began acting her sophomore year of at Atholton High School when her high school theatre director, Nathan Rosen offered her a part in a production en lieu of detention. In 2006, she graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a bachelor's in fine arts in drama and urban studies. During her undergraduate years she worked as a resident assistant and a stocker at Trader Joe's.
How their films are shot
Measured across 55 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work DeWanda takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 74% of their frames are night, 67% low key — the look of the work DeWanda 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 55 frames from DeWanda Wise's 2 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.