1974-02-10 ( 51 years old ) in 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).

Movies

A Mistake 2024-09-20
Skincare 2024-08-15
Migration 2023-12-06
Call Jane 2022-10-27
Brightburn 2019-05-09
Power Rangers 2017-03-23
Asteroids! 2017-01-21
Magic Mike XXL 2015-07-01
Love & Mercy 2015-05-29
Walk of Shame 2014-05-02
The Lego Movie 2014-02-06
Timms Valley 2013-12-31
Love, Marilyn 2013-05-30
Movie 43 2013-01-24
Lovely, Still 2012-12-09
The Details 2012-11-02
Pitch Perfect 2012-09-28
People Like Us 2012-06-29
Man on a Ledge 2012-01-13
The Uninvited 2009-01-30
Big Breaks 2008-12-31
Role Models 2008-11-07
W. 2008-10-17
Meet Dave 2008-07-08
Fred Claus 2007-11-09
Meet Bill 2007-09-07
Spider-Man 3 2007-05-01
Invincible 2006-08-25
Slither 2006-03-31
Daltry Calhoun 2005-09-25
The Baxter 2005-08-26
Heights 2005-07-15
The Sisters 2005-04-23
Sexual Life 2005-01-05
Spider-Man 2 2004-06-25
Seabiscuit 2003-07-22
Swept Away 2002-10-11
Spider-Man 2002-05-01
Shaft 2000-06-15
Uninvited 2000-05-19