FrameThrower · Actors · Idris Elba
Idris Elba
14 films · 1,000 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2007–2025
Born 6 September 1972 · Hackney, London, England, UK
Idris Elba is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions. One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. Since then he has worked in a variety of TV and movie projects including Ultraviolet, The Wire, No Good Deed and Zootopia.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 1,000 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2007–2025
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire2016
- Knight Bachelor2026
- honorary doctorate2022
- The King's Trust1988
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,000 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Idris takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 14 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Idris 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.
Heads of State
2025 · Sam Clarke
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022 · The Djinn
The Harder They Fall
2021 · Rufus Buck
The Suicide Squad
2021 · Bloodsport
Beasts of No Nation
2015 · Commandant
Pacific Rim
2013 · Stacker Pentecost
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Heimdall
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Heimdall
Star Trek Beyond
2016 · Krall
The Jungle Book
2016 · Shere Khan (voice)
Thor: The Dark World
2013 · Heimdall
Prometheus
2012 · Janek
Thor
2011 · Heimdall
28 Weeks Later
2007 · General Stone
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 1,000 frames from Idris Elba's 14 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.