Elizabeth Banks
Acting
Born February 10, 1974 · 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).
Directed (7)
Acting (84)
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
2026
DreamQuil
2026
A Mistake
2024
Skincare
2024
Migration
2023
Show Her the Money
2023
The Beanie Bubble
2023
Call Jane
2022
Charlie's Angels
2019
Brightburn
2019
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018
The Happytime Murders
2018
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
2017
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2017
The Power of the Present
2017
Power Rangers
2017
Asteroids!
2017
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
2015
Magic Mike XXL
2015
Love & Mercy
2015
Pitch Perfect 2
2015
Resident Advisors
2015
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014
Walk of Shame
2014
Every Secret Thing
2014
Little Accidents
2014
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
The Lego Movie
2014
Timms Valley
2013
Face in the Crowd
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
Love, Marilyn
2013
Movie 43
2013
Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special
2012
The Details
2012
Pitch Perfect
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
People Like Us
2012
What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012
The Hunger Games
2012
Man on a Ledge
2012
Just a Little Heart Attack
2011
Our Idiot Brother
2011
The Next Three Days
2010
Lovely, Still
2009
Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'
2009
The Uninvited
2009
Big Breaks
2008
Role Models
2008
W.
2008
This Is Not Sex
2008
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008
Meet Dave
2008
Definitely, Maybe
2008
Fred Claus
2007
Meet Bill
2007
Spider-Man 3
2007
Invincible
2006
Slither
2006
Daltry Calhoun
2005
The Baxter
2005
The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005
Heights
2005
The Sisters
2005
Sexual Life
2005
Spider-Man 2
2004
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003
Seabiscuit
2003
The Trade
2003
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002
Catch Me If You Can
2002
Swept Away
2002
Spider-Man
2002
Ordinary Sinner
2001
Wet Hot American Summer
2001
Shaft
2000
Uninvited
2000
Surrender Dorothy
1998