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Sullivan Stapleton

Sullivan Stapleton

3 films · 273 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20112019

Born 14 June 1977 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sullivan Stapleton] is an Australian actor who is best known for his roles in the SKY (BSkyB)/Cinemax/HBO television series Strike Back and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection Animal Kingdom.

Stapleton played the lead role, Greek leader Themistocles, in the film 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). He was honored on 24 October 2013 with a Breakthrough Award at an exclusive Australians in Film Benefit Dinner held in Los Angeles.

How their films are shot

Measured across 273 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sullivan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 65% of their frames are day, 67% natural — the look of the work Sullivan takes.

Time of day

Day65%
Night16%
Golden hour9%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural67%
Low key15%
High key14%

Shot size

Medium43%
Wide29%
Closeup18%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle10%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense11%
Lonely9%
Chaotic4%

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 273 frames from Sullivan Stapleton's 3 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.