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).
82 movies · 53 shows
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
2026·3.7
Skincare
2024·5.9
Migration
2023·7.4
Show Her the Money
2023·10.0
A Mistake
2023·6.1
The Beanie Bubble
2023·6.4
Call Jane
2022·6.5
Charlie's Angels
2019·6.4
Brightburn
2019·6.2
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019·6.7
Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018·6.3
The Happytime Murders
2018·5.8
Pitch Perfect 3
2017·6.5
Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase
2017·7.0
Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber
2017·0.0
The Power of the Present
2017·8.5
Power Rangers
2017·6.2
Asteroids!
2017·5.0
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015·6.9
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
2015·6.4
Magic Mike XXL
2015·6.1
Love & Mercy
2015·7.1
Pitch Perfect 2
2015·6.8
Resident Advisors
2015·0.0
Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
2015·0.0
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015·7.2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014·6.8
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014·8.3
Walk of Shame
2014·6.0
Every Secret Thing
2014·6.2
Little Accidents
2014·5.4
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014·6.4
The Lego Movie
2014·7.4
Timms Valley
2013·6.2
Face in the Crowd
2013·0.0
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013·7.4
Love, Marilyn
2013·6.6
Movie 43
2013·4.7
The Details
2012·6.0
Pitch Perfect
2012·7.3
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012·8.5
People Like Us
2012·6.8
What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012·6.0
The Hunger Games
2012·7.2
Man on a Ledge
2012·6.4
Just a Little Heart Attack
2011·6.2
Our Idiot Brother
2011·6.1
The Next Three Days
2010·7.1
Lovely, Still
2009·6.6
Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'
2009·7.2
The Uninvited
2009·6.5
Big Breaks
2008·4.0
Role Models
2008·6.5
W.
2008·6.1
This Is Not Sex
2008·0.0
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008·6.3
Meet Dave
2008·5.3
Definitely, Maybe
2008·6.9
Fred Claus
2007·5.8
Meet Bill
2007·6.0
Spider-Man 3
2007·6.5
Invincible
2006·7.0
Slither
2006·6.5
Daltry Calhoun
2005·5.0
The Baxter
2005·6.0
The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005·6.4
Heights
2005·6.3
The Sisters
2005·5.1
Sexual Life
2005·4.9
Spider-Man 2
2004·7.3
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
2003·0.0
Seabiscuit
2003·7.1
The Trade
2003·4.3
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002·4.0
Catch Me If You Can
2002·8.0
Swept Away
2002·4.7
Spider-Man
2002·7.3
Ordinary Sinner
2001·4.0
Wet Hot American Summer
2001·6.2
Shaft
2000·6.0
Uninvited
2000·5.3
Surrender Dorothy
1998·5.4