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Winston Duke

Winston Duke

4 films · 238 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20182024

Born 15 November 1986 · Argyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Winston Duke is a Tobagonian actor. Duke was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn, New York, United States, at age nine.

Duke began his career with minor roles in theatre productions and recurring roles on the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest (2014–2015) and the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2016). He rose to prominence after playing M'Baku in several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. He has since taken roles in the horror film Us (2019), the fantasy drama film Nine Days (2020), and the action comedy films Spenser Confidential (2020) and The Fall Guy (2024).

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How their films are shot

Measured across 238 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Winston 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, 47% of their frames are night, 47% natural — the look of the work Winston takes.

Time of day

Night47%
Day39%
Golden hour10%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key42%
High key5%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium49%
Wide26%
Closeup15%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle7%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral48%
Tense26%
Ominous7%
Lonely6%

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 238 frames from Winston Duke'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.