Elizabeth Banks
Birthday: 1974-02-10
Place of Birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: 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).
Movies
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the ...
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Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
An incredibly in depth and informative compendium of nine featurettes that address virtually every a...
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Spider-Man
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school studen...
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Spider-Man 2
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides ...
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Spider-Man 3
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-...
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Catch Me If You Can
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...
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Wet Hot American Summer
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real...
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W.
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his w...
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A Mistake
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is th...
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making ...
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Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special
The Robot Chicken Christmas Special has Santa nearly missing Christmas; Kano from Mortal Kombat shar...
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Seabiscuit
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...
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Fred Claus
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his ...
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Daltry Calhoun
In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf ...
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Meet Dave
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their pla...
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The 40 Year Old Virgin
Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics...
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Invincible
Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering od...
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Definitely, Maybe
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a secon...
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Slither
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutan...
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Swept Away
Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in l...
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Meet Bill
A mild-mannered bank executive mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a d...
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The Baxter
Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexcitin...
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Heights
Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny befo...
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The Uninvited
Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death ...
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The Next Three Days
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of murdering her boss. Her hu...
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Role Models
Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gi...
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Sexual Life
As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a ...
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The Sisters
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle wit...
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Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'
The making of Kevin Smith's film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno....
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Man on a Ledge
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatc...
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The Beanie Bubble
Ty was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women turned his stuffed animals...
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The Hunger Games
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to...
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DreamQuil
A woman embarks on a virtual wellness retreat in order to get her life back on track - but with nigh...
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Lovely, Still
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time....
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are u...
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Our Idiot Brother
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to gett...
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Movie 43
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory ...
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People Like Us
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man ...
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Skincare
Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very ...
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Love, Marilyn
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with parti...
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Pitch Perfect
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she fi...
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The Lego Movie
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited...
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Just a Little Heart Attack
A short film about a supermom who takes care of everyone except herself....
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Walk of Shame
A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stran...
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Big Breaks
Penny and Sam work for a notoriously mean spirited, selfish, and somewhat abusive big fish Hollywood...
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Little Accidents
In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of...
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Every Secret Thing
One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girl...
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Love & Mercy
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, wh...
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Magic Mike XXL
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining K...
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Pitch Perfect 2
The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other th...
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Ordinary Sinner
Three college students, two guys and a girl, encounter bigotry and violence in a small town, and sol...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a per...
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Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
An homage to the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman....
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Migration
After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, the Ma...
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Timms Valley
A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and liveliho...
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Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the comic minds behind a "Wet Hot" summer-...
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Power Rangers
Five ordinary teens must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Ang...
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Pitch Perfect 3
After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and disco...
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Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
This DVD release features six Christmas special episodes from Robot Chicken's hilariously outrageous...
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Face in the Crowd
A woman on a journey through a crowd grapples with private and public revelation, repulsion, fear, p...
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The Happytime Murders
In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children'...
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Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
In 1916, the highest paid silent film director at Universal Studios was a woman named Lois Weber. Ye...
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Asteroids!
Mac and Cheez are back, this time on a deep space adventure. Joined by their robot sidekick, their s...
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEG...
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Brightburn
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind,...
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Charlie's Angels
Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that ...
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Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
There’s nothing like the holidays in Apocalypseburg!...
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Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
A playful bird snatches Abby's magic wand during a hot-air balloon ride leaving Elmo, Abby and frien...
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The Power of the Present
Exploring the history of the 'Power Rangers' franchise, casting, special effects and music....
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Shaft
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t...
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Surrender Dorothy
Trevor is a busboy who is so terrified of women that he takes in a young man addicted to heroin and ...
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth ...
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This Is Not Sex
Sex sells. Sex kills. Sex thrills. "This Is Not Sex" pays homage to the subject of the upcoming Kevi...
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Call Jane
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal ab...
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The Details
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, thi...
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Show Her the Money
This is a story that’s never been told. SHOW HER THE MONEY addresses how women are getting less than...
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Stella Shorts 1998-2002
STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Mic...
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The Trade
An up-and-coming trader must choose between the seduction of Wall Street and a return home to the wo...
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Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Documentary on the performers in the 2003 film 'Seabiscuit'....
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