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Michelle Forbes

Michelle Forbes

2 films · 119 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20172017

Born 8 January 1965 · Austin, Texas, USA

Michelle Forbes is an American film and television actress, best known for many recurring appearances on genre and drama television shows such as "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Battlestar Galactica", "24", "Prison Break", and "True Blood".

How their films are shot

Measured across 119 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michelle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Michelle takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night42%

Lighting

Natural52%
Low key35%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide31%
Establishing11%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level94%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral78%
Lonely16%
Tense5%

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 119 frames from Michelle Forbes's 2 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.