FrameThrower · Actors · Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal
5 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2022–2024
Born 2 February 1996 · Maynooth, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland
Paul Colm Michael Mescal is an Irish actor. His accolades include two BAFTA Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Born in Dublin and raised in Maynooth, he studied acting at The Lir Academy and then performed in plays in Dublin theatres.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2022–2024
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor2021
How their films are shot
Measured across 264 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Paul takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Paul takes.
Time of day
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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 264 frames from Paul Mescal's 5 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.