FrameThrower · Actors · Tessa Thompson
Tessa Thompson
8 films · 500 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2006–2022
Born 3 October 1983 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Tessa Lynne Thompson is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Thompson began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College, acting in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. She made her film debut in the horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006), followed by leading roles in the independent drama Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 500 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2006–2022
- Gotham Awards for Best Actor2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 500 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tessa takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Tessa 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 500 frames from Tessa Thompson's 8 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.