FrameThrower · Actors · Penn Badgley
Penn Badgley
4 films · 423 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2009–2014
Born 1 November 1986 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Penn Dayton Badgley is an American actor. He is primarily known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You (2018–2025). For Gossip Girl, he received six Teen Choice Award nominations, and for You, he earned MTV Movie & TV Award and Saturn Award nominations.
Badgley first became known for portraying Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000–2001), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination, and he followed this with roles in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Drive-Thru (2007).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 423 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Penn takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Penn 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 423 frames from Penn Badgley's 4 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.