FrameThrower · Actors · Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale
12 films · 1,194 frames · top-billed in 12 · 2001–2024
Born 26 July 1973 · Chiswick, London, England, UK
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale is a British actress and model.
She first gained notice while a student at Oxford University for her debut in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Throughout the 1990s, she worked on both film and television, most notably by portraying the title character in the 1996 BBC television series Emma.
She started film work in the United States in the late 1990s. She appeared in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999). In 2001, she garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor (2001).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,194 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kate takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 60% low key — the look of the work Kate takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Canary Black
2024 · Avery Graves
Jolt
2021 · Lindy
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 · Selene
Love & Friendship
2016 · Lady Susan Vernon
The Face of an Angel
2014 · Simone Ford
Contraband
2012 · Kate Farraday
Total Recall
2012 · Lori Quaid
Snow Angels
2007 · Annie Marchand
Click
2006 · Donna Newman
Van Helsing
2004 · Anna Valerious
The Aviator
2004 · Ava Gardner
Pearl Harbor
2001 · Evelyn Johnson
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 1,194 frames from Kate Beckinsale's 12 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.