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Ryan Kwanten

Ryan Kwanten

2 films · 71 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20072010

Born 28 November 1976 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. From 2008 to 2014, he played Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond. In 2021, he starred in season one of the horror drama anthology series Them as George Bell. In 2022, he portrayed Thomas Weylin in Kindred, a series adaptation based on Octavia E. Butler's celebrated 1979 novel of the same name.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 71 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ryan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 88% of their frames are night, 73% low key — the look of the work Ryan takes.

Time of day

Night88%
Blue hour5%

Lighting

Low key73%
Chiaroscuro14%
Natural8%

Shot size

Closeup38%
Wide30%
Medium24%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
High angle7%
Low angle7%
Top down5%

Mood

Tense31%
Neutral30%
Ominous27%
Lonely7%

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 71 frames from Ryan Kwanten's 2 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.