FrameThrower · Actors · Stana Katic
Stana Katic
2 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2008–2021
Born 26 April 1978 · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Stana Katić is a Canadian actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as Kate Beckett on the ABC television series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the Amazon Prime Video series Absentia (2017–2020).
Katic was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to Serb parents Petar and Rada Katic, who emigrated from Croatia. She has four brothers and one sister. Katic began her acting career in theater, appearing in productions at the Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 234 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stana 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, 59% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Stana 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 234 frames from Stana Katic'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.