FrameThrower · Actors · Himesh Patel
Himesh Patel
2 films · 134 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2019–2020
Born 13 October 1990 · Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Himesh Jitendra Patel is a British actor. He began his career portraying Tamwar Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2007–2016). This was followed by roles in the Channel 4 sitcom Damned (2016–2018) and the films Yesterday (2019) and Tenet (2020).
In 2021, Patel starred in the HBO miniseries Station Eleven, earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, and appeared in Adam McKay's Netflix film Don't Look Up. He then starred in the films Good Grief (2023), Greedy People (2024), The Assessment (2024) and Bubble & Squeak (2025).
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How their films are shot
Measured across 134 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Himesh takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Himesh 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 134 frames from Himesh Patel's 2 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.