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Emmanuelle Seigner

Emmanuelle Seigner

5 films · 302 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19852018

Born 22 June 1966 · Paris, France

Emmanuelle Seigner is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie En Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 1989.

Seigner is the daughter of Jean-Louis Seigner (1941-2020), photographer, and Aline Ponelle, journalist. She is the older sister of Mathilde Seigner, actress, and Marie-Amélie Seigner, singer.

How their films are shot

Measured across 302 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emmanuelle 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, 52% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Emmanuelle takes.

Time of day

Day52%
Night35%
Interior5%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Natural56%
Low key31%
High key8%

Shot size

Medium34%
Closeup31%
Wide24%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level79%
Low angle12%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense14%
Lonely12%

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 302 frames from Emmanuelle Seigner'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.