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Gabrielle Union

Gabrielle Union

3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20032008

Born 29 October 1972 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade is an American actress. She is known for her roles in The Brothers (2001), Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Bad Boys II (2003), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), Think Like a Man (2012), Think Like a Man Too (2014), and the remake of Cheaper by the Dozen (2022). She also starred as the lead in the BET drama series Being Mary Jane (2013-2019), for which she has received an NAACP Image Award, and in the crime series L.A.'s Finest (2019-2020) - a spinoff series for her character Syd in Bad Boys II..

She also had starring roles in the CBS medical drama series City of Angels (2000) and in the films Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Neo Ned (2005), Cadillac Records (2008), Top

How their films are shot

Measured across 187 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gabrielle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 43% of their frames are day — the look of the work Gabrielle takes.

Time of day

Day43%
Interior29%
Night24%

Lighting

Natural37%
High key36%
Low key21%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium59%
Closeup20%
Wide13%
Fullbody4%

Camera angle

Eye level76%
Low angle17%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense21%

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 187 frames from Gabrielle Union's 3 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.