Elizabeth Banks 1974 51
Elizabeth Banks 1974 51
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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2025 Foreign Relations Producer
2025 DreamQuil as Carol Producer
2025 The Better Sister as Nicky Macintosh Executive Producer
2025 Cocaine Bear 2 Producer
2025 Where the Fore Are We? Producer
2025 The Grace Year Producer, Director
2025 The Greater Good Director
2024 A Mistake as Liz Taylor
2024 Skincare as Hope Goldman
2023 Migration as Pam Mallard (voice)
2023 Cat Person Executive Producer
2023 Show Her the Money as Herself
2023 Bottoms Producer
2023 The Beanie Bubble as Robbie
2023 Cocaine Bear: The True Story Executive Producer
2023 Cocaine Bear Director, Producer
2022 Call Jane as Joy
2022 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)
2019 Charlie's Angels as Boz Director, Screenplay, Producer
2019 Brightburn as Tori Breyer
2019 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part as Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)
2018 Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short as Lucy / Wyldstyle (voice)
2018 The Happytime Murders as Jenny
2017 Pitch Perfect 3 as Gail Producer
2017 Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase as Bird-Lady
2017 Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber as Herself - Host Executive Producer
2017 The Power of the Present as Self - Green Ranger (2017)
2017 The Most Hated Woman in America Producer
2017 Power Rangers as Rita Repulsa / The Green Ranger
2017 Asteroids! as Cheez
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Effie Trinket
2015 Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot as Self
2015 Magic Mike XXL as Paris
2015 Love & Mercy as Melinda Ledbetter
2015 Pitch Perfect 2 as Gail Abernathy-McKadden Director, Producer
2015 Resident Advisors as Doctor
2015 Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman as Self
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Effie Trinket)
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Effie Trinket
2014 Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials as Various (voice) (archive sound)
2014 Walk of Shame as Meghan
2014 Every Secret Thing as Detective Nancy Porter
2014 Little Accidents as Diane Doyle
2014 Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self (Effie Trinket)
2014 The Lego Movie as Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)
2013 Timms Valley as Beth Billings-Timms
2013 Face in the Crowd as Face
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Effie Trinket
2013 Love, Marilyn as Self
2013 Movie 43 as Amy (segment "Beezel") Director
2012 Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special as Mrs. Claus / Shana 'Scarlett' O'Hara (voice)
2012 The Details as Nealy Lang
2012 Pitch Perfect as Gail Abernathy-McKadden Producer
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (Effie Trinket)
2012 People Like Us as Frankie Davis
2012 What to Expect When You're Expecting as Wendy Cooper
2012 The Hunger Games as Effie Trinket
2012 Man on a Ledge as Lydia Mercer
2011 Just a Little Heart Attack as Woman Director
2011 Our Idiot Brother as Miranda Rochlin
2010 The Next Three Days as Lara
2009 Lovely, Still as Alex
2009 Surrogates Executive Producer
2009 Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' as Self
2009 The Uninvited as Rachael
2008 Big Breaks as Starlet
2008 Role Models as Beth
2008 W. as Laura Bush
2008 This Is Not Sex
2008 Zack and Miri Make a Porno as Miri
2008 Meet Dave as Gina Morrison
2008 Definitely, Maybe as Emily
2007 Fred Claus as Charlene
2007 Meet Bill as Jess
2007 Spider-Man 3 as Miss Brant
2006 Invincible as Janet Cantrell
2006 Slither as Starla Grant
2005 Daltry Calhoun as May
2005 The Baxter as Caroline Swann
2005 The 40 Year Old Virgin as Beth
2005 Heights as Isabel
2005 The Sisters as Nancy Pecket
2005 Sexual Life as Sarah
2004 Spider-Man 2 as Miss Brant
2003 Seabiscuit as Marcela Howard
2002 Stella Shorts 1998-2002 as Yoga Student
2002 Catch Me If You Can as Lucy
2002 Swept Away as Debi
2002 Spider-Man as Miss Brant
2001 Ordinary Sinner as Rachel
2001 Wet Hot American Summer as Lindsay
2000 Shaft as Trey's Friend
2000 Uninvited as Lady Reporter
1998 Surrender Dorothy as Vicki