FrameThrower · Actors · Marie-Josée Croze
Marie-Josée Croze
3 films · 185 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2000–2014
Born 23 February 1970 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian actress. She also holds French nationality, which she obtained in December 2012.
Croze was born in Montreal, Quebec, was adopted, and grew up in Longueuil with four other children. She studied fine arts at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal from 1986 to 1987.
She received the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 21st Genie Awards for her role in Denis Villeneuve's Maelström (2000).
She won the Best Actress award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in The Barbarian Invasions. She was cast by director Steven Spielberg in his film Munich, released in December 2005.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 185 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2000–2014
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress2003
- Prix Romy Schneider2010
- Genie Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2003
- Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role2000
How their films are shot
Measured across 185 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Marie-Josée 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, 58% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Marie-Josée 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 185 frames from Marie-Josée Croze'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.