FrameThrower · Actors · Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor
6 films · 426 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2017–2025
Born 20 May 1990 · Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Joshua Mathias O'Connor is a British actor. After training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he had supporting roles in television series such as Doctor Who in 2013 and Peaky Blinders in 2014. He had his breakthrough playing the lead role of a sheep farmer in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country (2017), for which he won a British Independent Film Award.
For portraying a young Charles III in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), O'Connor won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He has since starred in the period dramas Emma (2020) and La Chimera (2023) as well as Luca Guadagnino's Challengers (2024) and Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man (2025).
How their films are shot
Measured across 426 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Josh takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Josh takes.
Time of day
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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 426 frames from Josh O'Connor's 6 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.