FrameThrower · Actors · Jena Malone
Jena Malone
11 films · 848 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2005–2024
Born 21 November 1984 · Sparks, Nevada, USA
Jena Malone is an American actress, musician, and photographer. She made her film debut in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) and has appeared in films including Ellen Foster (1997), Contact (1997), Stepmom (1998), For Love of the Game (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), Life as a House (2001), Saved! (2004), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Into the Wild (2007), The Ruins (2008), Sucker Punch (2011), The Hunger Games film series (2013–15), The Neon Demon (2016), Nocturnal Animals (2016), and Antebellum (2020).
Malone is also an indie pop musician who has released music both under her own name (as "Jena Malone and Her Bloodstains") and as one-half of the duo The Shoe.
How their films are shot
Measured across 848 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jena takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Jena 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.
Antebellum
2020 · Elizabeth
The Neon Demon
2016 · Ruby
For Ellen
2012 · Susan
Sucker Punch
2011 · Rocket
The Ruins
2008 · Amy
Container
2006 · The Woman / Speaker (voice)
Donnie Darko
· Gretchen Ross
Love Lies Bleeding
2024 · Beth
Inherent Vice
2014 · Hope Harlingen
Into the Wild
2007 · Carine McCandless / Additional Narration (voice)
Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Lydia Bennet
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 848 frames from Jena Malone's 11 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.