
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

The Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

American Dad!

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

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Sex and the City

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

Pitch Perfect 2

Spider-Man 2

Catch Me If You Can

Spider-Man 3

Magic Mike XXL

Fred Claus

Power Rangers

Ultra City Smiths

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Mrs. America

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Role Models

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

What to Expect When You're Expecting

Pitch Perfect 3

Charlie's Angels

The Uninvited

Love & Mercy

Slither

Invincible

Definitely, Maybe

Migration

Man on a Ledge

Meet Dave

Moonbeam City

The Better Sister

The Next Three Days

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Our Idiot Brother

Brightburn

The Beanie Bubble

The Lego Movie

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

The Miniature Wife

Call Jane

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

Press Your Luck

Red Queen
Production Credits
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