FrameThrower · Actors · Dominique Swain
Dominique Swain
2 films · 148 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1997–2022
Born 12 August 1980 · Malibu, California, USA
Dominique Ariane Swain is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, and as Jamie Archer in the film Face/Off.
Swain started her career in Hollywood as a stunt double; she appeared as the double for Macaulay Culkin's younger sister Quinn in Joseph Ruben's The Good Son (1993). In 1995, at the age of 14, she was chosen out of 2,500 girls to play the title role in Adrian Lyne's controversial 1997 screen adaptation of Lolita, as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. She was 15 during filming and her performance was praised by critics.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 148 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dominique 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, 67% of their frames are night, 72% low key — the look of the work Dominique 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 148 frames from Dominique Swain'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.