FrameThrower · Actors · Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton
3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2019–2023
Born 25 July 1984 · London, England, UK
Zawedde Emma Ashton is a British actress, playwright and narrator. She is best known for her roles in the comedy dramas Fresh Meat and Not Safe for Work, the Netflix horror thriller film Velvet Buzzsaw and for her portrayal of Joyce Carol Vincent in Dreams of a Life (2011). She will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Dar-Benn in The Marvels (2023).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2019–2023
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2021
How their films are shot
Measured across 192 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zawe takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 55% low key — the look of the work Zawe 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 192 frames from Zawe Ashton's 3 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.