Elizabeth Banks
Biography
Elizabeth Banks (born February 10, 1974) is an American actress, producer and director. She is known for playing Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial film debut with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), whose $69 million opening-weekend gross set a record for a first-time director. She went on to direct, write, produce, and star in the action comedy film Charlie's Angels (2019). She also directed and produced the horror comedy film Cocaine Bear (2023). Banks founded the film and television production company Brownstone Productions in October 2002, with her husband Max Handelman.
Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy (1998). She has appeared in the films Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Invincible (2006), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Role Models (2008), The Next Three Days (2010), Man on a Ledge (2012), Movie 43 (2013), The Lego Movie (2014) and its 2019 sequel, Love & Mercy (2014), Walk of Shame (2014), Magic Mike XXL (2015), Power Rangers (2017), and The Beanie Bubble (2023).
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-02-10
Place of birth
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Images
Cast
Spider-Man
2002
7.30
Spider-Man 3
2007
6.45
Spider-Man 2
2004
7.30
Catch Me If You Can
2002
7.98
Wet Hot American Summer
2001
6.25
W.
2008
6.18
A Mistake
2024
6.20
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008
6.34
Seabiscuit
2003
7.06
Fred Claus
2007
5.86
Daltry Calhoun
2005
4.92
Meet Dave
2008
5.29
The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005
6.42
Invincible
2006
7.00
Definitely, Maybe
2008
6.94
Slither
2006
6.54
Swept Away
2002
4.76
Meet Bill
2007
6.05
The Baxter
2005
6.01
Heights
2005
6.26
The Uninvited
2009
6.45
The Next Three Days
2010
7.08
Role Models
2008
6.48
Sexual Life
2005
4.64
The Sisters
2005
4.76
Man on a Ledge
2012
6.43
The Beanie Bubble
2023
6.45
The Hunger Games
2012
7.20
DreamQuil
0.00
Lovely, Still
2009
6.61
Uninvited
2000
3.50
Our Idiot Brother
2011
6.15
Movie 43
2013
4.63
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
7.40
People Like Us
2012
6.77
Skincare
2024
6.00
Love, Marilyn
2013
6.57
Pitch Perfect
2012
7.27
The Lego Movie
2014
7.42
Just a Little Heart Attack
2011
6.20
Walk of Shame
2014
6.00
Big Breaks
2008
4.00
Little Accidents
2014
5.40
Every Secret Thing
2014
6.15
Love & Mercy
2015
7.08
Magic Mike XXL
2015
6.15
Pitch Perfect 2
2015
6.84
Ordinary Sinner
2001
3.63
Migration
2023
7.37
Timms Valley
2013
6.20
Power Rangers
2017
6.26
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
6.51
Face in the Crowd
2013
0.00
The Happytime Murders
2018
5.80
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2017
0.00
Asteroids!
2017
5.00
Brightburn
2019
6.14
Charlie's Angels
2019
6.39
The Power of the Present
2017
8.50
Shaft
2000
6.01
Surrender Dorothy
1998
4.14
This Is Not Sex
2008
0.00
Call Jane
2022
6.48
The Details
2012
5.97
Show Her the Money
2023
10.00
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002
3.00
Resident Advisors
2015
0.00
The Trade
2003
2.50