Elizabeth Banks
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: February 10, 1974 (50 years old)
Place of Birth: 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).
2024
2023
2022
2019
2018
2017
Actor Gail
Pitch Perfect 3
Actor Rita Repulsa / The Green Ranger
Power Rangers
Actor Cheez
Asteroids!
Actor Herself - Host
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
Actor Bird-Lady
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
Actor Self - Green Ranger (2017)
The Power of the Present
Producer
Pitch Perfect 3
Producer
The Most Hated Woman in America
2016
2015
Actor Melinda Ledbetter
Love & Mercy
Actor Gail Abernathy-McKadden
Pitch Perfect 2
Actor Effie Trinket
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Actor Paris
Magic Mike XXL
Actor Herself
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
Actor Self (Effie Trinket)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Actor Self
Straight From The Heart: A Tribute To Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director
Pitch Perfect 2
Producer
Pitch Perfect 2
2014
Actor Detective Nancy Porter
Every Secret Thing
Actor Meghan
Walk of Shame
Actor Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)
The Lego Movie
Actor Effie Trinket
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Actor Diane Doyle
Little Accidents
Actor Various (voice) (archive sound)
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
Actor Self (Effie Trinket)
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
2012
Actor Lydia Mercer
Man on a Ledge
Actor Effie Trinket
The Hunger Games
Actor Alex
Lovely, Still
Actor Wendy Cooper
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Actor Frankie Davis
People Like Us
Actor Gail Abernathy-McKadden
Pitch Perfect
Actor Nealy Lang
The Details
Actor Self (Effie Trinket)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Actor Mrs. Claus / Shana 'Scarlett' O'Hara (voice)
Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special
Producer
Pitch Perfect
