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Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger

5 films · 717 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20042023

Born 15 July 1976 · Algermissen, Lower Saxony, West Germany [now Germany]

Diane Kruger is a German actress. Early in her career, Kruger gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.

Kruger became known for her roles in film as Helen in the epic war film Troy (2004), Dr. Abigail Chase in the heist film National Treasure (2004) and its 2007 sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Gina in the psychological thriller film Unknown (2011). She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series The Bridge (2013–14). In 2017, she made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin's In the Fade, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 717 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20042023

  • Officer of Arts and Letters2014
  • Trophée Chopard

How their films are shot

Measured across 717 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Diane takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Diane takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night44%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural45%
Low key42%
High key10%

Shot size

Medium54%
Closeup20%
Wide17%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral47%
Tense27%
Mysterious8%
Lonely6%

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 717 frames from Diane Kruger's 5 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.