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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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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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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
American Dad!
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Scrubs
Third Watch
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Daily Show
The Boys
Modern Family
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Family Guy
Sex and the City
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Early Show
Honest Trailers
Entertainment Tonight
Without a Trace
30 Rock
The Jay Leno Show
Resident Advisors
The Muppets
Critics Choice Awards
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Shaft
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Movie 43
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Pitch Perfect
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Catch Me If You Can
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut
Magic Mike XXL
Fred Claus
Pitch Perfect 2
Power Rangers
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Pitch Perfect 3
Seabiscuit
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Role Models
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
What to Expect When You're Expecting
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Mrs. America
Charlie's Angels
The Uninvited
Ultra City Smiths
Love & Mercy
Invincible
Definitely, Maybe
Slither
Brightburn
The Next Three Days
The Beanie Bubble
Migration
Meet Dave
Man on a Ledge
The Lego Movie
The Better Sister
Our Idiot Brother
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Moonbeam City
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Call Jane
The Miniature Wife
Press Your Luck
Red Queen
Production Credits
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Resident Advisors
Press Your Luck
Bottoms
Movie 43
The Better Sister
Pitch Perfect 3
Red Queen
Surrogates
The Miniature Wife
Shrill
Pitch Perfect
Charlie's Angels
Pitch Perfect 2
Cocaine Bear
Foreign Relations
The Most Hated Woman in America
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