FrameThrower · Actors · Gemma Chan
Gemma Chan
8 films · 514 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2014–2023
Born 29 November 1982 · London, England, UK
Gemma Chan is an English actress. A Worcester College, Oxford graduate, Chan began acting in the late 2000s, making her film debut in 2009. She rose to attention with her leading role in the Channel 4 science fiction series Humans (2015–2018). She gained prominence with her starring roles in Crazy Rich Asians and as Elizabeth Hardwick in Mary Queen of Scots (both 2018).
She next starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain Marvel (2019) and Eternals (2021), portraying Minn-Erva and Sersi, respectively. She also had a voice role in the Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 514 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2014–2023
- Max Mara Face of the Future Award2020
How their films are shot
Measured across 514 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gemma takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 42% of their frames are day, 41% low key — the look of the work Gemma 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 514 frames from Gemma Chan's 8 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.