Elizabeth Banks

Acting · 4.6 popularity

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Born: February 10, 1974
From: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
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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).

Works

84 films

Spider-Man

20027.3

Spider-Man 3

20076.5

Spider-Man 2

20047.3

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

20146.8

Catch Me If You Can

20028.0

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

20137.4

The Lego Movie

20147.4

Brightburn

20196.2

Migration

20237.4

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

20156.9

The Hunger Games

20127.2

Pitch Perfect 2

20156.8

Pitch Perfect

20127.3

Power Rangers

20176.2

The 40 Year Old Virgin

20056.4

Movie 43

20134.7

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

20196.7

Charlie's Angels

20196.4

The Uninvited

20096.5

Role Models

20086.5

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

20086.3

Man on a Ledge

20126.4

Definitely, Maybe

20086.9

Slither

20066.5

Pitch Perfect 3

20176.5

The Next Three Days

20107.1

Meet Dave

20085.3

Fred Claus

20075.8

Shaft

20006.0

Walk of Shame

20146.0

Swept Away

20024.7

Magic Mike XXL

20156.1

What to Expect When You're Expecting

20126.0

Wet Hot American Summer

20016.2

Seabiscuit

20037.1

Invincible

20067.0

Call Jane

20226.5

Love & Mercy

20157.1

The Happytime Murders

20185.8

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

20263.7

Meet Bill

20076.0

The Power of the Present

20178.5

People Like Us

20126.8

20086.1

Our Idiot Brother

20116.1

The Beanie Bubble

20236.4

Ordinary Sinner

20014.0

Every Secret Thing

20146.1

A Mistake

20236.2

Skincare

20246.0

Lovely, Still

20096.6

The Details

20126.0

Sexual Life

20054.9

DreamQuil

2026

Love, Marilyn

20136.6

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

20157.2

Big Breaks

20084.0

The Baxter

20056.0

Little Accidents

20145.4

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials

20148.3

Heights

20056.3

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

20128.5

The Sisters

20055.1

Surrender Dorothy

19985.4

Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'

20097.2

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

20024.0

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

20156.4

Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short

20186.3

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

20146.4

Daltry Calhoun

20055.0

Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase

20177.0

Just a Little Heart Attack

20116.2

Show Her the Money

202310.0

Uninvited

20005.3

Timms Valley

20136.2

Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman

2015

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

2003

The Magic School Bus

2026

Asteroids!

20175.0

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

2017

This Is Not Sex

2008

The Trade

20034.3

Face in the Crowd

2013

Resident Advisors

2015