A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Elizabeth Casey
Elizabeth Irene Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell
Ελίζαμπεθ Μίτσελ
الیزابت بنکس
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).
Director:
2011 Just a Little Heart Attack
2013 Movie 43
2015 Pitch Perfect 2
2019 Charlie's Angels
2023 Cocaine Bear
???? The Grace Year
???? The Greater Good
Executive Producer:
2009 Surrogates
2011 Just a Little Heart Attack
2013 Movie 43
2015 Pitch Perfect 2
2017 Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2019 Charlie's Angels
2023 Cat Person
2023 Cocaine Bear
2023 Cocaine Bear: The True Story
???? The Grace Year
???? The Greater Good
Producer:
2009 Surrogates
2011 Just a Little Heart Attack
2012 Pitch Perfect
2013 Movie 43
2015 Pitch Perfect 2
2017 Pitch Perfect 3
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2019 Charlie's Angels
2023 Bottoms
2023 Cat Person
2023 Cocaine Bear
2023 Cocaine Bear: The True Story
???? Cocaine Bear 2
???? DreamQuil
???? Foreign Relations
???? The Grace Year
???? The Greater Good
???? Where the Fore Are We?
Screenplay:
2009 Surrogates
2011 Just a Little Heart Attack
2012 Pitch Perfect
2013 Movie 43
2015 Pitch Perfect 2
2017 Pitch Perfect 3
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2019 Charlie's Angels
2023 Bottoms
2023 Cat Person
2023 Cocaine Bear
2023 Cocaine Bear: The True Story
???? Cocaine Bear 2
???? DreamQuil
???? Foreign Relations
???? The Grace Year
???? The Greater Good
???? Where the Fore Are We?
Director:
???? Red Queen
Executive Producer:
2015 Resident Advisors
2019 Press Your Luck
2019 Shrill
2022 Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2025 The Better Sister
???? Red Queen
???? The Miniature Wife
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.