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Dylan O'Brien

Dylan O'Brien

4 films · 231 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20132024

Born 26 August 1991 · New York City, New York, USA

Dylan Rhodes O'Brien is an American actor. His first major role was as Stiles Stilinski in the MTV supernatural series Teen Wolf (2011–2017). He achieved further prominence for his lead role in the science fiction Maze Runner trilogy (2014–2018), which led to more film appearances.

O'Brien played Deepwater Horizon explosion survivor Caleb Holloway in the disaster film Deepwater Horizon (2016), fictional counterterrorist Mitch Rapp in the action thriller American Assassin (2017), and voiced the title character in the Transformers instalment Bumblebee (2018). He also played the lead role in the adventure film Love and Monsters (2020) and the horror film Caddo Lake (2024).

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Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 231 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20132024

  • Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi2017
  • Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer TV Star: Male2016
  • MTV Movie Award for Best Fight2015
  • MTV Movie Award for Best Hero2015
  • Teen Choice Award for Choice TV - Villain2014

How their films are shot

Measured across 231 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dylan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Dylan takes.

Time of day

Day61%
Night29%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural53%
Low key29%
High key17%

Shot size

Medium52%
Wide21%
Closeup18%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
High angle10%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral72%
Tense13%
Lonely8%

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 231 frames from Dylan O'Brien's 4 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.