Elizabeth Banks
Acting
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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Filmography of
Elizabeth Banks
Liz Taylor
... 2024
Hope Goldman
... 2024
Pam Mallard (voice)
... 2023
Herself
... 2023
Robbie
... 2023
Joy
... 2022
Self (archive footage)
... 2022
Boz
... 2019
Tori Breyer
... 2019
Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)
... 2019
Lucy / Wyldstyle (voice)
... 2018
Jenny
... 2018
Gail
... 2017
Bird-Lady
... 2017
Herself - Host
... 2017
Self - Green Ranger (2017)
... 2017
Rita Repulsa / The Green Ranger
... 2017
Cheez
... 2017
Effie Trinket
... 2015
... 2015
Paris
... 2015
Melinda Ledbetter
... 2015
Gail Abernathy-McKadden
... 2015
Self (Effie Trinket)
... 2015
Effie Trinket
... 2014
Various (voice) (archive sound)
... 2014
Meghan
... 2014
Detective Nancy Porter
... 2014
Diane Doyle
... 2014
Self (Effie Trinket)
... 2014
Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)
... 2014
Beth Billings-Timms
... 2013
Face
... 2013
Effie Trinket
... 2013
Self
... 2013
Amy (segment "Beezel")
... 2013
Mrs. Claus / Shana 'Scarlett' O'Hara (voice)
... 2012
Alex
... 2012
Nealy Lang
... 2012
Gail Abernathy-McKadden
... 2012
Self (Effie Trinket)
... 2012
Frankie Davis
... 2012
Wendy Cooper
... 2012
Effie Trinket
... 2012
Lydia Mercer
... 2012
... 2011
Miranda Rochlin
... 2011
Lara
... 2010
... 2009
Rachael
... 2009
Starlet
... 2008
Beth
... 2008
Laura Bush
... 2008
... 2008
... 2008
Gina Morrison
... 2008
Emily
... 2008
Charlene
... 2007
Jess
... 2007
Miss Brant
... 2007
Janet Cantrell
... 2006
Starla Grant
... 2006
May
... 2005
Caroline Swann
... 2005
... 2005
Isabel
... 2005
Nancy Pecket
... 2005
Sarah
... 2005
Miss Brant
... 2004
Marcela Howard
... 2003
Yoga Student
... 2002
Lucy
... 2002
Debi
... 2002
Miss Brant
... 2002
Rachel
... 2001
Lindsay
... 2001
Trey's Friend
... 2000
Lady Reporter
... 2000
Vicki
... 1998
Carol