Elizabeth Banks
Acting
1974-02-10 · 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).
Filmography
TheatersDreamQuil
2026 · Movie
TheatersMighty Mary
2026 · Movie
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
2026 · Movie
The Puzzle Room with David Kwong
2026 · Series
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
2026 · Series
The Miniature Wife
2026 · Series
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · Series
The Better Sister
2025 · Series
Skincare
2024 · Movie
Migration
2023 · Movie
Cat Person
2023 · Movie
Show Her the Money
2023 · Movie
A Mistake
2023 · Movie
Bottoms
2023 · Movie
The Beanie Bubble
2023 · Movie
Cocaine Bear: The True Story
2023 · Movie
Cocaine Bear
2023 · Movie
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022 · Series
Call Jane
2022 · Movie
Mrs. America
2020 · Series
I'm a LA… Get Me Out of Here!
2019 · Series
Charlie's Angels
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
The Boys
2019 · Series
Press Your Luck
2019 · Series
Brightburn
2019 · Movie
Shrill
2019 · Series
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019 · Movie
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018 · Movie
The Happytime Murders
2018 · Movie
Pitch Perfect 3
2017 · Movie
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
2017 · Movie
The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Series
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2017 · Movie
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017 · Series
The Power of the Present
2017 · Movie
The Gong Show
2017 · Series
Power Rangers
2017 · Movie
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 · Movie
Asteroids!
2017 · Movie
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Movie
The Muppets
2015 · Series
Moonbeam City
2015 · Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
2015 · Series
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
2015 · Movie
Magic Mike XXL
2015 · Movie
Love & Mercy
2015 · Movie
Pitch Perfect 2
2015 · Movie
Resident Advisors
2015 · Series
Resident Advisors
2015 · Movie
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015 · Movie
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
2015 · Movie
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · Movie
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014 · Movie
Walk of Shame
2014 · Movie
Every Secret Thing
2014 · Movie
Little Accidents
2014 · Movie
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
The Lego Movie
2014 · Movie
Timms Valley
2013 · Movie
Face in the Crowd
2013 · Movie
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Movie
Love, Marilyn
2013 · Movie
The Frame
2013 · Series
Movie 43
2013 · Movie
The Details
2012 · Movie
Pitch Perfect
2012 · Movie
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012 · Movie
People Like Us
2012 · Movie
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012 · Series
What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012 · Movie
The Hunger Games
2012 · Movie
Man on a Ledge
2012 · Movie
Just a Little Heart Attack
2011 · Movie
Our Idiot Brother
2011 · Movie
The Next Three Days
2010 · Movie
Conan
2010 · Series
Lovely, Still
2009 · Movie
Surrogates
2009 · Movie
Modern Family
2009 · Series
The Jay Leno Show
2009 · Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'
2009 · Movie
The Uninvited
2009 · Movie
Big Breaks
2008 · Movie
Role Models
2008 · Movie
W.
2008 · Movie
This Is Not Sex
2008 · Movie
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008 · Movie
Meet Dave
2008 · Movie
Definitely, Maybe
2008 · Movie
Comanche Moon
2008 · Series
Fred Claus
2007 · Movie
Meet Bill
2007 · Movie
Spider-Man 3
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
30 Rock
2006 · Series
Invincible
2006 · Movie
Slither
2006 · Movie
Made in Hollywood
2005 · Series
Daltry Calhoun
2005 · Movie
The Baxter
2005 · Movie
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
2005 · Movie
Heights
2005 · Movie
The Sisters
2005 · Movie
Robot Chicken
2005 · Series
American Dad!
2005 · Series
Sexual Life
2005 · Movie
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Series
Spider-Man 2
2004 · Movie
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003 · Movie
Seabiscuit
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
The Trade
2003 · Movie
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002 · Movie
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Movie
Swept Away
2002 · Movie
Without a Trace
2002 · Series
Spider-Man
2002 · Movie
Ordinary Sinner
2001 · Movie
Scrubs
2001 · Series
Wet Hot American Summer
2001 · Movie
Critics Choice Awards
2001 · Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
Shaft
2000 · Movie
Uninvited
2000 · Movie
The Early Show
1999 · Series
Third Watch
1999 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Family Guy
1999 · Series
Sex and the City
1998 · Series
Surrender Dorothy
1998 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Series
Throttled
Movie
She's Fine
Series
The Magic School Bus
Movie
Untitled Karen Read Series
Series
Bad Hand
Movie
Cocaine Bear 2
Movie
The Grace Year
Movie
Betas
Movie
Where the Fore Are We?
Movie
Harness
Movie
The Greater Good
Movie