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Sterling K. Brown

Sterling K. Brown

6 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20182023

Born 5 April 1976 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Sterling Kelby Brown is an American actor. Known for his leading roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.

Brown portrayed Christopher Darden in the FXlimited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), which earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20182023

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama2018
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2017
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2016
  • Time 1002018

How their films are shot

Measured across 447 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sterling 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, 44% of their frames are day — the look of the work Sterling takes.

Time of day

Day44%
Night39%
Interior9%
Golden hour6%

Lighting

Natural39%
Low key38%
High key19%

Shot size

Medium43%
Wide22%
Closeup21%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle6%
Low angle6%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral56%
Tense22%
Ominous7%
Lonely4%

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 447 frames from Sterling K. Brown'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.