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Margaret Qualley

Margaret Qualley

11 films · 720 frames · top-billed in 6 · 20132024

Born 23 October 1994 · Kalispell, Montana, USA

Sarah Margaret Qualley is an American actress. A daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballet dancer in her youth. She made her acting debut in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto. She gained recognition for her supporting role in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017).

Qualley featured in the films The Nice Guys (2016), Death Note (2017), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), as well as the video game Death Stranding (2019). She received praise and nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Ann Reinking in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and the title role in the Netflix drama miniseries Maid (2021).

How their films are shot

Measured across 720 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Margaret takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 11 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Margaret takes.

Time of day

Night50%
Day41%
Interior7%

Lighting

Low key49%
Natural36%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium42%
Closeup28%
Wide21%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle7%
High angle6%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral62%
Tense20%
Lonely9%
Ominous5%

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 720 frames from Margaret Qualley's 11 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.