FrameThrower · Actors · Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon
3 films · 386 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2016–2023
Born 6 January 1984 · Sea Cliff, New York, USA
Kate McKinnon Berthold is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022, where she became known for her character work and celebrity impressions. For her work on the series, she was nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and nine for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017.
McKinnon starred in the Logo sketch comedy series The Big Gay Sketch Show (2007–2010), voiced lead roles in the PBS Kids animated series Nature Cat (2015–2025) and the Netflix animated series The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2017–2021), and…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 386 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2016–2023
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series2017
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 386 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 45% high key — the look of the work Kate 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 386 frames from Kate McKinnon's 3 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.