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Elizabeth Banks

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Elizabeth Banks

Born Feb 10, 1974 · 52 years153 titles 97 movies · 56 TV
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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).

Also known as

Elizabeth Casey · Elizabeth Irene Mitchell · Elizabeth Mitchell

Born

Feb 10, 1974

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

138

Acting credits

7

Directing

1

Writing

27

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1949 1 title(s)

1953 1 title(s)

1975 1 title(s)

1981 1 title(s)

1988 1 title(s)

1989 1 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

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2005 9 title(s)

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2014 10 title(s)

2015 13 title(s)

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2018 2 title(s)

2019 7 title(s)

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Undated 9 title(s)