Biography
Elizabeth Banks is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known for playing chaperone Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015) and an ICCA commentator 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 directed the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019) and the horror comedy film Cocaine Bear (2023). Banks founded the film and television production company Brownstone Productions in 2002 with her husband, Max Handelman.
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Awards & recognition
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year · 2020
- Crystal Award · 2017
- CinemaCon · 2015
- MTV Movie Award — Best On-Screen Transformation · 2015
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival · 2014
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- CinemaCon · 2013
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Director · 2013
- MTV Movie Award — Best On-Screen Transformation · 2012
- Max Mara Face of the Future Award · 2009
- Women in Film Honors · 2009
Filmography50+ titles
Show Her the Money
The Boys
Scrubs
Bear Grylls Is Running Wild
Catch Me If You Can
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
Modern Family
Third Watch
Press Your Luck
Robot Chicken
30 Rock
Migration
The Lego Movie
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Family Guy
Sex and the City
The Miniature Wife
Mrs. America
Pitch Perfect
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man
Without a Trace
The Hunger Games
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Love & Mercy
The Next Three Days
Comanche Moon
Seabiscuit
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
The Muppets.
Invincible
American Dad!
The Better Sister
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Definitely, Maybe
Saturday Night Live
Bottoms
Pitch Perfect 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
People Like Us
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Love, Marilyn
Lovely, Still
Call Jane
Pitch Perfect 3
Role Models