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Lily Cole

Lily Cole

3 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20092015

Born 27 December 1987 · Torquay, Devon, England, UK

Lily Luahana Cole is an English actress and entrepreneur.

Cole pursued a modelling career as a teenager and was listed in 2009 by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She was booked for her first British Vogue cover at age 16, named "Model of the Year" at the 2004 British Fashion Awards, and worked with many well-known brands, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Moschino. Her advertising campaigns have included Longchamp, Anna Sui, Rimmel and Cacharel.

Cole's first leading role as an actress was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

How their films are shot

Measured across 246 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lily 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, 45% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Lily takes.

Time of day

Day45%
Night42%
Interior9%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key42%
High key7%

Shot size

Medium46%
Closeup27%
Wide17%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle9%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense21%
Lonely12%
Ominous8%

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 246 frames from Lily Cole'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.