FrameThrower · Actors · Lily James
Lily James
6 films · 643 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2015–2023
Born 5 April 1989 · Esher, Surrey, England, UK
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015).
James went on to portray Natasha Rostova in the television adaptation of War & Peace (2016).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 643 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2015–2023
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
How their films are shot
Measured across 643 frames from the 6 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 6 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Lily takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 643 frames from Lily James'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.