Elizabeth Banks

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

Self - Effie Trinket

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

Self - Effie Trinket

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Miss Brant

Spider-Man

Miss Brant

Spider-Man 2

Miss Brant

Spider-Man 3

Lucy

Catch Me If You Can

Lindsay

Wet Hot American Summer

Laura Bush

W.

Liz Taylor

A Mistake

Miri

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Mrs. Claus / Shana 'Scarlett' O'Hara (voice)

Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special

Marcela Howard

Seabiscuit

Charlene

Fred Claus

May

Daltry Calhoun

Gina Morrison

Meet Dave

Beth

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Janet Cantrell

Invincible

Emily

Definitely, Maybe

Starla Grant

Slither

Debi

Swept Away

Jess

Meet Bill

Caroline Swann

The Baxter

Isabel

Heights

Rachael

The Uninvited

Lara

The Next Three Days

Beth

Role Models

Sarah

Sexual Life

Nancy Pecket

The Sisters

Self

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

Lydia Mercer

Man on a Ledge

Robbie

The Beanie Bubble

Effie Trinket

The Hunger Games

Carol

DreamQuil

Alex

Lovely, Still

Lady Reporter

Uninvited

Wendy Cooper

What to Expect When You're Expecting

Miranda Rochlin

Our Idiot Brother

Amy (segment "Beezel")

Movie 43

Effie Trinket

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Frankie Davis

People Like Us

Hope Goldman

Skincare

Self

Love, Marilyn

Gail Abernathy-McKadden

Pitch Perfect

Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)

The Lego Movie

Woman

Just a Little Heart Attack

Meghan

Walk of Shame

Starlet

Big Breaks

Diane Doyle

Little Accidents

Detective Nancy Porter

Every Secret Thing

Melinda Ledbetter

Love & Mercy

Effie Trinket

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Paris

Magic Mike XXL

Gail Abernathy-McKadden

Pitch Perfect 2

Rachel

Ordinary Sinner

Effie Trinket

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Self

Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman

Pam Mallard (voice)

Migration

Beth Billings-Timms

Timms Valley

Self

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

Rita Repulsa / The Green Ranger

Power Rangers

Gail

Pitch Perfect 3

Various (voice) (archive sound)

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials

Face

Face in the Crowd

Jenny

The Happytime Murders

Herself - Host

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

Cheez

Asteroids!

Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Tori Breyer

Brightburn

Boz

Charlie's Angels

Lucy / Wyldstyle (voice)

Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short

Bird-Lady

Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase

Self - Green Ranger (2017)

The Power of the Present

Trey's Friend

Shaft

Vicki

Surrender Dorothy

Self - Effie Trinket

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

This Is Not Sex

Joy

Call Jane

Nealy Lang

The Details

Herself

Show Her the Money

Yoga Student

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

Doctor

Resident Advisors

Sioux Sever

The Trade

Self

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

83

Gender

Female

Birthday

1974-02-10

Place of Birth

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

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