FrameThrower · Actors · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
7 films · 534 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2017–2023
Born 15 July 1986 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019).
He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 534 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2017–2023
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2020
How their films are shot
Measured across 534 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Yahya takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Yahya takes.
Time of day
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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 534 frames from Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's 7 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.