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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).
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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).
Known For
The Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Scrubs
Third Watch
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Daily Show
The Boys
Modern Family
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Family Guy
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Sex and the City
The Early Show
Honest Trailers
Entertainment Tonight
Without a Trace
30 Rock
The Jay Leno Show
American Dad!
Resident Advisors
Critics Choice Awards
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Shaft
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Movie 43
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Pitch Perfect
Spider-Man
Pitch Perfect 2
Spider-Man 2
Catch Me If You Can
Spider-Man 3
Magic Mike XXL
Fred Claus
Power Rangers
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Mrs. America
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Role Models
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Pitch Perfect 3
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Ultra City Smiths
Charlie's Angels
The Uninvited
Love & Mercy
Slither
Definitely, Maybe
Invincible
Moonbeam City
Man on a Ledge
Meet Dave
Brightburn
The Better Sister
Our Idiot Brother
Migration
The Beanie Bubble
The Next Three Days
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Lego Movie
Press Your Luck
The Miniature Wife
Call Jane
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Red Queen
Production Credits
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Red Queen
Bottoms
The Most Hated Woman in America
Resident Advisors
Foreign Relations
Movie 43
Pitch Perfect 2
Charlie's Angels
The Better Sister
Shrill
Pitch Perfect 3
Press Your Luck
Cocaine Bear
Pitch Perfect
The Miniature Wife
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