FrameThrower · Actors · Gillian Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs
5 films · 392 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2008–2018
Born 19 October 1982 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Gillian Jacobs is an American film, theatre and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community.
Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was a Carnegie Mellon University director of alumni relations at the Heinz College. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker.She was raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. She is of French, German, Irish, and Scottish descent.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 392 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gillian 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, 48% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Gillian 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 392 frames from Gillian Jacobs'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.