
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).
Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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

American Dad!

Resident Advisors

The Muppets

Critics Choice Awards

Shaft

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Movie 43

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Pitch Perfect

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Pitch Perfect 2

Catch Me If You Can

Spider-Man 3

Magic Mike XXL

Fred Claus

Power Rangers

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Seabiscuit

The Hunger Games

Pitch Perfect 3

Role Models

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

What to Expect When You're Expecting

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Ultra City Smiths

Charlie's Angels

The Uninvited

Mrs. America

Definitely, Maybe

Love & Mercy

Invincible

Slither

Moonbeam City

Brightburn

The Beanie Bubble

Meet Dave

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

The Next Three Days

Migration

The Lego Movie

The Better Sister

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Our Idiot Brother

Man on a Ledge

Press Your Luck

Call Jane

The Miniature Wife

Red Queen

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Production Credits
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