FrameThrower · Actors · Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson
11 films · 966 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2003–2019
Born 17 December 1974 · Tampa, Florida, USA
Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American actress. She began her acting career in New York City stage productions before starring in the short-lived television series American Gothic (1995–1996) and Jack & Jill (1999–2001). She later appeared in comedy films such as What Women Want (2000) and Down with Love (2003), and drama films such as Path to War (2002) and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). From 2006 to 2007, she starred as Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 966 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2003–2019
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 966 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sarah 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, 58% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Sarah 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.
The Post
2017 · Tony Bradlee
Blue Jay
2016 · Amanda
Martha Marcy May Marlene
2011 · Lucy
Down With Love
2003 · Vikki Hiller
Glass
2019 · Dr. Ellie Staple
Bird Box
2018 · Jessica
Carol
2015 · Abby Gerhard
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Mary Epps
The Spirit
2008 · Ellen Dolan
The Notorious Bettie Page
2005 · Bunny Yeager
Path to War
2003 · Luci Baines Johnson
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 966 frames from Sarah Paulson'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.