FrameThrower · Actors · Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer
5 films · 312 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2000–2017
Born 6 October 1971 · London, England, UK
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer is a British actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She provided Sophie's voice in the English-language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 312 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2000–2017
- Film Independent Spirit Awards2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 312 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emily 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, 47% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Emily takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 312 frames from Emily Mortimer'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.