FrameThrower · Actors · Jovan Adepo
Jovan Adepo
5 films · 388 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2016–2023
Born 6 September 1988 · Upper Heyford, England, UK
Jovan Adepo is a British-born American actor. He is known for his role as Cory Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences (2016), and also had starring roles in the 2018 film Overlord and as Lionel Jefferson in CBS' All in the Family/The Jeffersons special. Adepo was featured in the series When They See Us, the second season of Prime Video’s Jack Ryan, and the Facebook series Sorry for Your Loss. He plays Michael Murphy in the HBO series The Leftovers and in 2019 appeared in Watchmen as Hooded Justice. For the latter, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also starred as Larry Underwood in the Paramount+ miniseries of Stephen King's The Stand.
How their films are shot
Measured across 388 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jovan 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, 63% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Jovan takes.
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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 388 frames from Jovan Adepo'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.