FrameThrower · Actors · Pilou Asbæk
Pilou Asbæk
6 films · 408 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2014–2023
Born 2 March 1982 · Copenhagen, Denmark
Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles as Euron Greyjoy on HBO's Game of Thrones, Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur (2016), Bouchard in The Great Wall (2016), Batou in Ghost in the Shell (2017), Captain Wafner in Overlord (2018), Cyrus in Samaritan(2022), Gage in Uncharted (2022), and a troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul in the Danish TV political drama Borgen.
He was among the recipients of the Shooting Stars Award at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.
On 10 May he was co-host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, with Lise Rønne and Nikolaj Koppel. Some critics commented adversely on the obscure jokes shared by the presenters throughout the televised show.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 408 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2014–2023
- Shooting Stars Award2011
- Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2011
- Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 408 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pilou takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Pilou takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 408 frames from Pilou Asbæk's 6 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.