Elizabeth Banks (b. 1974)

Alias:
Elizabeth Casey
Elizabeth Irene Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell
Ελίζαμπεθ Μίτσελ
Ελίζαμπεθ Μπανκς
엘리자베스 뱅크스

Birthplace:
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

Born:
February 10, 1974

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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Director:
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Executive Producer:
2015  Resident Advisors
2019  Press Your Luck
2019  Shrill
2022  Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
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????  The Better Sister
????  The Miniature Wife

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