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Jo Hartley

Jo Hartley

2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20062016

Born 12 March 1972 · Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Jo Hartley is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the films Dead Man's Shoes (2004), This Is England (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Torvill & Dean (2018), Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018), Eddie the Eagle (2016), Sweetheart (2021), and Bank of Dave (2023). Television credits include This Is England '86 (2010), Not Safe For Work (2015), In My Skin (2018), After Life (2019-2022), Mandy (2021), Das Boot (2022), Death In Paradise (2023), Passenger (2024), and Adolescence (2025).

Hartley was born in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, and brought up in a working-class family, attending North Chadderton School in Chadderton, in Oldham.

How their films are shot

Measured across 126 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jo 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, 61% of their frames are day, 63% natural — the look of the work Jo takes.

Time of day

Day61%
Night32%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural63%
Low key19%
High key17%

Shot size

Closeup41%
Medium29%
Wide23%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
High angle10%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense17%
Lonely9%
Ominous4%

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 126 frames from Jo Hartley'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.