FrameThrower · Actors · Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel
14 films · 957 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1995–2020
Born 23 November 1966 · Paris, France
Vincent Cassel is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine, for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016). Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (both in 2008). In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 957 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1995–2020
- César Award2009
- César Award for Best Actor2009
- Knight of the National Order of Merit
- National Order of Merit
- Sitges Grand Honorary Award2010
- Lumière Award for Best Actor2009
- Lumière Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 957 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Vincent takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 14 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Vincent takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Underwater
2020 · Captain Lucien
It’s Only The End Of The World
2016 · Antoine
Tale of Tales
2015 · King of Strongcliff
Trance
2013 · Franck
Our Day Will Come
2010 · Patrick
Black Swan
2010 · Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman
Eastern Promises
2007 · Kirill
Renegade
2004 · Mike Blueberry
Irréversible
2002 · Marcus
Read My Lips
2001 · Paul Angeli
La Haine
1995 · Vinz
Shrek
2001 · Monsieur Hood (voice)
Elizabeth
1998 · Duc d'Anjou
A Dangerous Method
· Otto Gross
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 957 frames from Vincent Cassel's 14 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.