Elizabeth Banks

At 50 years old, Elizabeth Banks has this physical status:

Elizabeth Banks (née Mitchell) is an American actress, writer, and producer who was born in February 10, 1974.

She is best known for her role as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015) and as Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017).

Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), the bank's debut-directed film, set a record for a first-time director.

In the action comedy film Charlie's Angels, she also wrote, produced, and starred. Banks made her film debut in Surrender Dorothy, a low-budget independent film released in 1998.

She appeared in the films Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Seabiscuit (2006), Role Models (2008), Man on a Ledge (2012), The Lego Movie (2012), Man on a Ledge (2012), The Lego Movie (2012), Thistle (2015), and Brightburn (1999). Banks appeared on television as Avery Jessup on NBC's sitcom 30 Rock, which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

She appeared on the comedy series Scrubs and Modern Family, the latter of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp (2015) and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2016).

Press Your Luck on ABC is a television show on ABC that airs in the 1980s.

Early life

Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and grew up on Brown Street, Ann (née Wallace) and Mark P. Mitchell's eldest of four children. Her father, a Vietnam War soldier, worked at GM, and her mother worked in a bank. "Irish + WASP + Catholic" grew up, she has said. Banks played baseball and rode horses as a teen. She was in Little League when she broke her leg and into third base. She then tried to leave for the school play, which was her first experience with acting.

She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and is a member of the Massachusetts Junior Classical League. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Sorority and was elected to the Friars Senior Society. She earned a bachelor of communications and a minor in theater arts in 1996. She completed school at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, where she earned an MFA degree in 1998.

Personal life

On her first day of college, Banks met Max Handelman, a sportswriter and editor from Portland, Oregon, who died on September 7, 1992. They were married in 2003. Both of the couple's two sons were born via survivorship.

Banks went through phases of conversion to Judaism, her husband's faith, and studied with rabbis. "I did not have my mikveh in 2013, so I'm not converted," she said, but that "I'm still doing everything [practicing religious rituals]," she said.

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Career

After joining the Screen Actors Guild, actress Elizabeth Mitchell was already registered in the union under the name.

After performing in New York, she was offered a role in Santa Barbara's soap opera. To complete her degree, she would have had to abandon her studies at the American Conservatory Theatre, and the banks eventually decided not to accept the position due to her taking out student loans to fund her degree. Elizabeth Casey, the actress, made her acting debut in the 1998 independent film Surrender Dorothy, and appeared in various films over the next seven years, including Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Swept Away (2002), and Seabiscuit (2003).

Brownstone Productions was established in 2002 by Banks' future husband, Max Handelman.

With her appearance in the 2005 comedy film The 40-Year Virgin Virgin, banks became more well-known. Banks appeared in William Inge's Bus Stop as Cherie, the sexy blonde aspiring nightclub entertainer, in August 2005 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Banks' appearance, according to Jeffrey Borak, was handled with "confidence, clarity, and a shrewd glance at Cherie's complexities. Her appearance is all of a piece and in accordance, stylistically speaking, with the performances around her." She appeared on the television series Stella in 2005 and in May 2006 as Dr. Kim Briggs, J.D.'s love interest. (Zach Braff, a German musician). As a regular guest performer, banks appeared in seasons six, seven, and eight.

Banks appeared in Invincible, an American football drama film in which she played Mark Wahlberg's love interest. Later this year, she and co-star Wahlberg were nominated for the "Best Kiss" award at the MTV Movie Awards. She gained her leading role in Slither's comedy-horror film in the same year.

Banks appeared in the comedy film Meet Bill in 2007, alongside Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba. Charlyne, Santa's little helper, appeared in Fred Claus, co-starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti in the same year. In 2008, she played ex-wife and mother of Ryan Reynolds' daughter in the comedy film Definitely, Maybe, alongside Isla Fisher and Ryan Reynolds, and played First Lady Laura Bush in W., Oliver Stone's biopic of George W. Bush.

Banks appeared in the horror film The Uninvited, a South Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters, in 2009. The film was about an invasive stepmother who makes life for her teen daughters of her new husband's traumatic. Rachel De Mornay's character in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle was based on Rebecca De Mornay's character. "It was really important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted in two ways," Banks says of her role "so that when you go back through the movie you can see the details."

Banks is a frequent co-star of actor Paul Rudd, with the two actors appearing in five films together (Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The 40-Year Virgin, Role Models, and Our Idiot Brother). She appears in five films together, including Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, and The Details.

In the fourth season of the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 30 Rock, the bank was cast as a love interest for Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). With 13 appearances by the end of the fifth season, including her marriage in the episode "Mrs. Donaghy," Banks was supposed to appear in four episodes in 2010. For the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, her appearance in season five earned her a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Banks appeared in the romantic comedy film What to Expect When You're Expecting and Man on a Ledge in 2012. Gail Abernathy-McKadden appeared in the musical comedy film Pitch Perfect, which was also a critical and commercial success. In the upcoming year, she produced and appeared in separate portions of Movie 43, a critically acclaimed comedy anthology film.

Banks appeared in the science fiction adventure film The Hunger Games (2012), portraying Effie Trinket, a woman from "The Capitol" who escorts the District 12 tributes to the annual Hunger Games. Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). Banks co-starred in Every Secret Thing's 2014 film Everybody Secret Thing, playing Detective Nancy Porter, who was investigating the disappearance of a young boy with traces to a case she had never encountered before. In the Warner Bros. animated film The Lego Movie, she appeared as Master Builder Wyldstyle for the first year.

The Women in Hollywood Awards, which honor women for their outstanding achievements in film, spanning all facets of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing, were lauded by Elle Magazine in 2014.

Banks produced and appeared in the film Pitch Perfect 2, the bank's sequel to its Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), the bank's first film directorial debut. She has also co-produced and appeared in both Pitch Perfect 2 and Pitch Perfect 3 (2015), as well as the forthcoming sequel, Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).

In the 2015 biopic Love & Mercy, which is based on the life of the musician and founding member of The Beach Boys, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, the wife of Brian Wilson, was depicted by John Cusack.

She was selected as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival in 2015. Alfonso Cuarón, the festival's chaired, is in charge of the festivities. In addition, Banks became a spokeswoman for Realtor.com in a series of television commercials in 2015. As of mid-February 2016, Banks became Old Navy's commercial star. Rita Repulsa played space alien Rita Repulsa in the 2017 Power Rangers reboot film.

Jenny McCarthy and Maya Rudolph co-starred in the comedy film The Happytime Murders in 2018. Lucy / Wyldstyle, a 19-year-old actress, appeared in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part of the animated comedy film In 2019, she reprised her starring role. Tori Breyer appeared in the superhero horror film Brightburn.

ABC revealed Banks as the host of the summer 2019 revival of the game show Press Your Luck, which she also produces on May 2, 2019. In the action comedy film Charlie's Angels, which was released in November 2019, the bank produced, edited, wrote, and starred Bosley. In the FX miniseries Mrs. America, she starred as feminist Jill Ruckelshaus in 2020.

Banks was set to star, direct, and produce a new version of The Invisible Woman (1940), based on her own personal story pitch in November 2019. Erin Cressida Wilson will write the script for the female monster's revival, while Max Handelman and Alison Small will appear as producer and executive producer, respectively.

Banks were able to choose a project by Universal Pictures from Universal Pictures' catalog in February 2020, eventually choosing The Invisible Woman. Banks will appear in a live-action/animated hybrid of The Magic School Bus in June 2020, for which she will also produce through her company Brownstone Productions.

Banks will produce Cocaine Bear, which she will co-produce with Brownstone Productions' Max Handelman and Christopher Miller, in March 2021. Banks will produce and appear in the forthcoming television series Red Queen, based on the dystopian book of the same name, in May 2021.

Banks was cast in Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash's forthcoming film The Beanie Bubble in January 2022.

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