Elizabeth Banks
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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).

Films Featuring Elizabeth Banks

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

20128.5

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

20146.4

Spider-Man

20027.3

Spider-Man 3

20076.5

Spider-Man 2

20047.3

Catch Me If You Can

20028.0

Wet Hot American Summer

20016.2

W.

20086.1

A Mistake

20236.2

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

20086.3

Seabiscuit

20037.1

Fred Claus

20075.8

Daltry Calhoun

20055.0

Meet Dave

20085.3

The 40 Year Old Virgin

20056.4

Invincible

20067.0

Definitely, Maybe

20086.9

Slither

20066.5

Swept Away

20024.7

Meet Bill

20076.0

The Baxter

20056.0

Heights

20056.3

The Uninvited

20096.5

The Next Three Days

20107.1

Role Models

20086.5

Sexual Life

20054.9

The Sisters

20055.1

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

20097.2

Man on a Ledge

20126.4

The Beanie Bubble

20236.4

The Hunger Games

20127.2

DreamQuil

2026

Lovely, Still

20096.6

Uninvited

20005.3

What to Expect When You're Expecting

20126.0

Our Idiot Brother

20116.1

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

20137.4

Movie 43

20134.7

People Like Us

20126.8

Skincare

20246.0

Love, Marilyn

20136.6

Pitch Perfect

20127.3

The Lego Movie

20147.4

Just a Little Heart Attack

Just a Little Heart Attack

20116.2

Walk of Shame

20146.0

Big Breaks

Big Breaks

20084.0

Little Accidents

20145.4

Every Secret Thing

20146.1

Love & Mercy

20157.1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

20146.8

Magic Mike XXL

20156.1

Pitch Perfect 2

20156.8

Ordinary Sinner

20014.0

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

20156.9

Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman

Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman

2015

Migration

20237.4

Timms Valley

20136.2

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

20156.4

Power Rangers

20176.2

Pitch Perfect 3

20176.5

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials

20148.3

Face in the Crowd

2013

The Happytime Murders

20185.8

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

2017

Asteroids!

20175.0

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

20196.7

Brightburn

20196.2

Charlie's Angels

20196.4

Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short

20186.3

Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase

20177.0

The Power of the Present

20178.5

Shaft

20006.0

Surrender Dorothy

19985.4

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

20157.2

This Is Not Sex

This Is Not Sex

2008

Call Jane

20226.5

The Details

20126.0

Show Her the Money

202310.0

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

20024.0

Resident Advisors

2015

The Trade

20034.3

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

2003

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

20266.6

The Magic School Bus