FrameThrower · Actors · Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2016–2019
Born 21 April 1983 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE is a British actress. She began acting at the National Youth Music Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She gained acclaim for her roles as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra in 2005 at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. She made her West End and Broadway debut, portraying Ophelia in Hamlet in 2009. For her role as the titular character in Jessica Swale's 2015 play Nell Gwynn, she received an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress nomination.
Her early television roles include Doctor Who(2007), the NBC series Undercovers (2010), and FOX's Touch (2012).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2016–2019
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gugu takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 42% low key — the look of the work Gugu 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 260 frames from Gugu Mbatha-Raw's 4 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.