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).
Acting (77 movies)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
Spider-Man
2002
Spider-Man 2
2004
Spider-Man 3
2007
Catch Me If You Can
2002
Wet Hot American Summer
2001
W.
2008
A Mistake
2024
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008
Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special
2012
Seabiscuit
2003
Fred Claus
2007
Daltry Calhoun
2005
Meet Dave
2008
The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005
Invincible
2006
Definitely, Maybe
2008
Slither
2006
Swept Away
2002
Meet Bill
2007
The Baxter
2005
Heights
2005
The Uninvited
2009
The Next Three Days
2010
Role Models
2008
Sexual Life
2005
The Sisters
2005
Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'
2009
Man on a Ledge
2012
The Beanie Bubble
2023
The Hunger Games
2012
Lovely, Still
2009
Uninvited
2000
What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012
Our Idiot Brother
2011
Movie 43
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
People Like Us
2012
Skincare
2024
Love, Marilyn
2013
Pitch Perfect
2012
The Lego Movie
2014
Walk of Shame
2014
Little Accidents
2014
Every Secret Thing
2014
Love & Mercy
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Magic Mike XXL
2015
Pitch Perfect 2
2015
Ordinary Sinner
2001
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
Migration
2023
Timms Valley
2013
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
2015
Power Rangers
2017
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014
Face in the Crowd
2013
The Happytime Murders
2018
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2017
Asteroids!
2017
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
Brightburn
2019
Charlie's Angels
2019
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
2017
The Power of the Present
2017
Shaft
2000
Surrender Dorothy
1998
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
Call Jane
2022
The Details
2012
Show Her the Money
2023
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002
Resident Advisors
2015
The Trade
2003
Directing (5 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Surrogates | 2009 | Executive Producer |
| Pitch Perfect | 2012 | Producer |
| Resident Advisors | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Pitch Perfect 2 | 2015 | Producer |
| The Most Hated Woman in America | 2017 | Producer |
| Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Pitch Perfect 3 | 2017 | Producer |
| Charlie's Angels | 2019 | Screenplay |
| Charlie's Angels | 2019 | Producer |
| Cocaine Bear | 2023 | Producer |
| Cocaine Bear: The True Story | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Bottoms | 2023 | Producer |
| Cat Person | 2023 | Executive Producer |