FrameThrower · Actors · Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key
11 films · 893 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2015–2025
Born 22 March 1971 · Southfield, Michigan, USA
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor and comedian, best known for starring in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and for his six seasons as a cast member on MADtv. He has also appeared in the films Wonka, Toy Story 4, and Pitch Perfect 2.
Key was born in Southfield, Michigan and raised in Detroit. His father is African-American and his mother is European-American. He was adopted as a child. In 1989 he graduated from Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. Key attended the University of Detroit as an undergraduate and earned his Master of Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania State University School of Theatre. While at The University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta.
How their films are shot
Measured across 893 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Keegan-Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 58% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Keegan-Michael takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Wonka
2023 · Chief of Police
Keanu
2016 · Clarence Goobril / Smoke Dresden
Play Dirty
2025 · Ed Mackey
Migration
2023 · Delroy (voice)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023 · Toad (voice)
Pinocchio
2022 · 'Honest' John (voice)
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
2022 · Murray (voice)
Toy Story 4
2019 · Ducky (voice)
The Predator
2018 · Coyle
Hotel Transylvania 2
2015 · Murray (voice)
Dolemite Is My Name
· Jerry Jones
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 893 frames from Keegan-Michael Key's 11 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.