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Virginie Efira

Virginie Efira

4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20162023

Born 5 May 1977 · Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium

Virginie Efira is a Belgian-French actress and television presenter. Efira got her first leading role in the romantic comedy It Boy (2013). She subsequently received critical praise for her performance in the comedy drama In Bed with Victoria (2016), for which she received a Magritte Award for Best Actress as well as a César Award for Best Actress nomination. She then appeared in Paul Verhoeven's psychological thriller Elle (2016), the drama An Impossible Love (2018), the comedy drama Sibyl (2019) and the black comedy Bye Bye Morons (2020).

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Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20162023

  • Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress2026
  • César Award for Best Actress2023
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour2024
  • Knight of the National Order of Merit2021
  • Officer of Arts and Letters2023

How their films are shot

Measured across 235 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Virginie 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, 52% of their frames are day, 47% low key — the look of the work Virginie takes.

Time of day

Day52%
Night44%

Lighting

Low key47%
Natural42%
High key8%

Shot size

Medium62%
Closeup20%
Wide13%

Camera angle

Eye level93%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral70%
Tense17%
Lonely8%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 235 frames from Virginie Efira'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.