FrameThrower · Actors · Hong Chau
Hong Chau
4 films · 238 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2024
Born 25 June 1979 · Thailand
Hong Chau is an American actress. She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter.
Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and majored in film studies at Boston University College of Communication before pursuing an acting career.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 238 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2024
- Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 238 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hong 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, 54% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Hong takes.
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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 238 frames from Hong Chau'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.