FrameThrower · Actors · Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal
9 films · 731 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2002–2014
Born 16 November 1977 · Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal Sarsgaard is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, nominations for two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards.
Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films. She appeared with her brother in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 731 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2002–2014
- Golden Globe Awards
- John Jay Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 731 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Maggie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Maggie 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.
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 731 frames from Maggie Gyllenhaal's 9 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.