Elizabeth Banks

Acting

Born Feb 10, 1974

From Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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).

Elizabeth Banks

Known For

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 3

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Spider-Man 2

Catch Me If You Can

Migration

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games

Brightburn

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Filmography — Acting

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 3

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Spider-Man 2

Catch Me If You Can

Migration

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games

Brightburn

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Lego Movie

Movie 43

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Power Rangers

Walk of Shame

People Like Us

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Slither

Pitch Perfect 3

Shaft

Charlie's Angels

The Next Three Days

Role Models

Man on a Ledge

Swept Away

Meet Dave

Invincible

Seabiscuit

Magic Mike XXL

Definitely, Maybe

W.

What to Expect When You're Expecting

The Uninvited

The Power of the Present

Fred Claus

Skincare

Meet Bill

The Happytime Murders

Wet Hot American Summer

Love, Marilyn

Our Idiot Brother

Heights

The Baxter

Every Secret Thing

Love & Mercy

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

DreamQuil

Call Jane

The Beanie Bubble

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

A Mistake

Sexual Life

The Details

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

The Sisters

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

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

Timms Valley

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Daltry Calhoun

Uninvited

Little Accidents

This Is Not Sex