FrameThrower · Actors · Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent
7 films · 660 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2009–2024
Born 21 February 1983 · Paris, France
Mélanie Laurent is a French actress and filmmaker. She is an accomplished actress in the French film industry and the recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Internationally, Laurent is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Operation Finale (2018) and 6 Underground (2019).
Laurent began acting at age sixteen, cast by Gérard Depardieu in a small role in the romantic drama The Bridge (1999). She gained wider recognition for supporting work in several French films, including the comedy Dikkenek (2006), for which she won Étoiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomer.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 660 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2009–2024
- César Award for Best Documentary Film2016
- César Award for Best Female Revelation2007
- Knight of the National Order of Merit2017
- Officer of Arts and Letters2022
- honorary doctor of the University of Namur2016
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2014
- Lumière Award for Best Female Revelation2007
- Prix Romy Schneider2006
How their films are shot
Measured across 660 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mélanie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Mélanie takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 660 frames from Mélanie Laurent's 7 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.