FrameThrower · Actors · Rupert Friend
Rupert Friend
11 films · 793 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2009–2025
Born 9 October 1981 · Oxfordshire, England, UK
Rupert William Anthony Friend is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019).
In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating…
How their films are shot
Measured across 793 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rupert 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, 48% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Rupert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Canary Black
2024 · David Brooks
The Rat Catcher
2023 · Claud Cubbage
The Swan
2023 · Narrator / Adult Peter Watson
At Eternity’s Gate
2018 · Theo van Gogh
The Young Victoria
2009 · Prince Albert
Companion
2025 · Sergey
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025 · Martin Krebs
Last Looks
2022 · Wilson Sikorsky
Making of: Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022 · Self - Grand Inquisitor
The Death of Stalin
2017 · Vasily Stalin
The Zero Theorem
2013 · TV Presenter
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 793 frames from Rupert Friend'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.