
Elizabeth Banks
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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).
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

American Dad!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Scrubs

Third Watch

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Graham Norton Show

Saturday Night Live

The Daily Show

The Boys

Modern Family

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Family Guy

Sex and the City

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Early Show

Honest Trailers

Entertainment Tonight

Without a Trace

30 Rock

The Jay Leno Show

Resident Advisors

The Muppets

Critics Choice Awards

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Shaft

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Movie 43

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Pitch Perfect

Spider-Man

Catch Me If You Can

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut

Spider-Man 3

Magic Mike XXL

Pitch Perfect 2

Fred Claus

Power Rangers

The 40 Year Old Virgin

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Role Models

What to Expect When You're Expecting

Seabiscuit

Pitch Perfect 3

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games

The Uninvited

Ultra City Smiths

Mrs. America

Charlie's Angels

Love & Mercy

Definitely, Maybe

Invincible

Slither

The Lego Movie

Brightburn

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Moonbeam City

The Next Three Days

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

The Beanie Bubble

Man on a Ledge

Our Idiot Brother

Meet Dave

Migration

The Better Sister

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

Press Your Luck

The Miniature Wife

Red Queen

Call Jane
Production Credits
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