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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).
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As actor
DreamQuil
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Skincare
A Mistake
The Beanie Bubble
Migration
Show Her the Money
Call Jane
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Brightburn
Charlie's Angels
The Happytime Murders
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
Power Rangers
Pitch Perfect 3
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
Asteroids!
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
The Power of the Present
Love & Mercy
Magic Mike XXL
Pitch Perfect 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Resident Advisors
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Lego Movie
Walk of Shame