FrameThrower · Actors · Steven Yeun
Steven Yeun
7 films · 518 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2014–2025
Born 21 December 1983 · Seoul, South Korea
Yeun Sang-Yeop, known professionally as Steven Yeun (/jʌn/ YUHN), is an American actor. Yeun initially became famous for playing Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Asian American actor to be nominated. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. In 2023, he starred in the dark comedy series Beef (2023), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Yeun has also appeared in the films Okja (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Humans (2021)…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 518 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2014–2025
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film2023
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie2023
- Time 1002021
How their films are shot
Measured across 518 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Steven takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Steven takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 518 frames from Steven Yeun's 7 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.