FrameThrower · Actors · Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel
5 films · 294 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2012–2019
Born 9 April 1982 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel is a Canadian actor. He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, and How to Train Your Dragon film series, as well as the films She's Out of My League, The Trotsky, The Art of the Steal, Robocop (2014), This is the End, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
He has also had roles on TV shows including Undeclared, The Stones, Man Seeking Woman, The Moodys, and a voice role for DreamWorks Dragons.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 294 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2012–2019
- Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production2010
- Canadian Comedy Award for Best Performance by a Male – Film
How their films are shot
Measured across 294 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jay 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, 52% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Jay 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.
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 294 frames from Jay Baruchel'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.