FrameThrower · Actors · Mamoudou Athie
Mamoudou Athie
4 films · 215 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2020–2024
Born 25 July 1988 · Mauritania
Mamoudou Athie is a Mauritanian-born American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in the TV series Cake (2019) and films such as The Circle (2017), The Front Runner (2018), Unicorn Store (2017), UUncorked (2020), Kinds of Kindness (2024) and The Drama (2026). Athie was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his performance in Cake.
How their films are shot
Measured across 215 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mamoudou takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Mamoudou takes.
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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 215 frames from Mamoudou Athie's 4 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.