Elizabeth Banks

Acting · Born 1974-02-10 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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…

Filmography

• Spider-Man as Miss Brant
• Spider-Man 2 as Miss Brant
• Catch Me If You Can as Lucy
• Wet Hot American Summer as Lindsay
• Seabiscuit as Marcela Howard
• Invincible as Janet Cantrell
• Definitely, Maybe as Emily
• The Next Three Days as Lara
• The Hunger Games as Effie Trinket
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Effie Trinket

TV

• Modern Family as Sal
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jaina Jansen
• Curb Your Enthusiasm as Elizabeth Banks
• The Simpsons as Persephone (voice)
• The Boys as Elizabeth Banks (uncredited)
• Third Watch as Elaine Elchisak
• Robot Chicken as Mrs. Claus / Scarlett (voice)
• The Tony Danza Show as Self
• American Dad! as Becky Arangino (voice)
• The Daily Show as Self