FrameThrower · Actors · Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald
6 films · 330 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1996–2017
Born 23 February 1976 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Kelly Macdonald is a Scottish actress. Known for her film and television performances, she has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Macdonald made her film debut in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men (2007). During her career, she has taken roles in Elizabeth (1998), Gosford Park (2001), Intermission (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Anna Karenina(2012), T2 Trainspotting (2017), and Operation Mincemeat (2021).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 330 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1996–2017
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2012
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2006
How their films are shot
Measured across 330 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kelly 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, 44% of their frames are night, 43% natural — the look of the work Kelly takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 330 frames from Kelly Macdonald'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.