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Vanessa Kirby

Vanessa Kirby

4 films · 404 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20162023

Born 18 April 1988 · Wimbledon, London, England, UK

Vanessa Nuala Kirby is an English actress. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the film Pieces of a Woman (2020), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Kirby made her professional acting debut on stage, with acclaimed performances in the plays All My Sons (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 404 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20162023

  • Volpi Cup for Best Actress2020

How their films are shot

Measured across 404 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Vanessa takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Vanessa takes.

Time of day

Day60%
Night31%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Natural55%
Low key29%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium47%
Wide25%
Closeup18%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
Low angle7%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral65%
Tense18%
Ominous4%

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 404 frames from Vanessa Kirby's 4 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.