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Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman

11 films · 741 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20122025

Born 26 June 1970 · Joliet, Illinois, USA

Nicholas David Offerman is an American actor. He became widely known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), for which he received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy and was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Offerman has also appeared in the second season of the FX series Fargo (2015), for which he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as the FX on Huluseries Pam & Tommy (2022) and the HBO series The Last of Us (2023), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 741 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20122025

  • TCA Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 741 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nick 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, 52% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Nick takes.

Time of day

Day52%
Night35%
Golden hour6%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural54%
Low key30%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium50%
Wide23%
Closeup16%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle6%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral63%
Tense17%
Ominous6%
Lonely5%

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 741 frames from Nick Offerman'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.