FrameThrower · Actors · Embeth Davidtz
Embeth Davidtz
6 films · 840 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1992–2014
Born 11 August 1965 · Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Embeth Jean Davidtz is an American-born South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men.
In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller about growing up on a farm in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The film had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 840 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Embeth takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Embeth takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 840 frames from Embeth Davidtz's 6 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.