Elizabeth Banks
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).
Filmography (54)
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Skincare
Migration
The Beanie Bubble
Cocaine Bear
Bottoms
Call Jane
Brightburn
Charlie's Angels
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Happytime Murders
Power Rangers
Pitch Perfect 3
The Most Hated Woman in America
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Pitch Perfect 2
Magic Mike XXL
Love & Mercy
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Lego Movie
Walk of Shame
Every Secret Thing
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie 43
The Hunger Games
Pitch Perfect
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Man on a Ledge
People Like Us
The Details
Our Idiot Brother
The Next Three Days
The Uninvited
Lovely, Still
Surrogates
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Meet Dave
Definitely, Maybe
Role Models
W.
Spider-Man 3
Meet Bill
Fred Claus
Slither
Invincible
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Baxter
Spider-Man 2
Seabiscuit
Spider-Man
Catch Me If You Can
Swept Away
Wet Hot American Summer
