Elizabeth Banks
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).
136 acting credits · 7 directing credits
Acting · 136
The Boys
2019
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Modern Family
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
Without a Trace
2002
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Scrubs
2001
30 Rock
2006
The View
1997
Third Watch
1999
Sex and the City
1998
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Robot Chicken
2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Spider-Man
2002
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Spider-Man 3
2007
The Oscars
1953
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Migration
2023
Catch Me If You Can
2002
The Jay Leno Show
2009
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
Made in Hollywood
2005
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
Spider-Man 2
2004
The Lego Movie
2014
The Better Sister
2025
The Miniature Wife
2026
The Hunger Games
2012
Pitch Perfect 2
2015
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Mrs. America
2020
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
Pitch Perfect
2012
Brightburn
2019
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
2015
Power Rangers
2017
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
The Frame
2013
The Muppets
2015
The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005
Charlie's Angels
2019
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008
Movie 43
2013
The Gong Show
2017
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
The Emmy Awards
1949
Slither
2006
The Next Three Days
2010
Critics Choice Awards
2001
Comanche Moon
2008
The Power of the Present
2017
Shaft
2000
Role Models
2008
Man on a Ledge
2012
What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012
Definitely, Maybe
2008
Meet Dave
2008
The Uninvited
2009
Magic Mike XXL
2015
Seabiscuit
2003
Swept Away
2002
Resident Advisors
2015
Walk of Shame
2014
Invincible
2006
Moonbeam City
2015
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
2026
Fred Claus
2007
Press Your Luck
2019
People Like Us
2012
The Early Show
1999
The Happytime Murders
2018
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
2026
Meet Bill
2007
W.
2008
Our Idiot Brother
2011
Love & Mercy
2015
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
Untitled Elizabeth Banks Apple TV Series
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Call Jane
2022
Wet Hot American Summer
2001
Sexual Life
2005
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'
2009
DreamQuil
2026
The Details
2012
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002
Skincare
2024
Heights
2005
Love, Marilyn
2013
The Sisters
2005
The Beanie Bubble
2023
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
2015
Every Secret Thing
2014
A Mistake
2023
The Baxter
2005
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014
Little Accidents
2014
Resident Advisors
2015
Daltry Calhoun
2005
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
2015
Lovely, Still
2009
This Is Not Sex
2008
Timms Valley
2013
Ordinary Sinner
2001
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
2017
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018
Big Breaks
2008
Just a Little Heart Attack
2011
Show Her the Money
2023
The Puzzle Room with David Kwong
2026
Uninvited
2000
Surrender Dorothy
1998
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2017
Asteroids!
2017
The Trade
2003
Face in the Crowd
2013
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003
