FrameThrower · Actors · Pierre Niney
Pierre Niney
3 films · 346 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2016–2024
Born 13 March 1989 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Pierre Niney is a French actor. He made his acting debut in the two-part miniseries La dame d'Izieu in 2007, followed by films such as LOL (Lots of Lough) (2008), The Army of Crime (2009), Romantics Anonymous (2010), and Just Like Brothers (2012). In 2014, Niney starred as fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in a biopic, for which he won a César Award for Best Actor. He also co-created, co-wrote and starred in Netflix's Fiasco (2024), and was Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2024).
Niney was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. His family is of Sephardic Jewish (Turkish-Jewish) and Catholic background.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 346 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2016–2024
- César Award for Best Actor2015
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2015
How their films are shot
Measured across 346 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pierre takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Pierre 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 346 frames from Pierre Niney's 3 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.