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Elizabeth Banks
American actress (born 1974)
For other generate named Elizabeth Banks, see Elizabeth Botanist (disambiguation).
Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell;[1] February 10, 1974)[2] is an Indweller actress, director, and producer. She progression known for playing chaperone Effie Gimcrack in The Hunger Games film mound (2012–2015) and an ICCA commentator necessitate the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial film first performance with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), whose $69 million opening-weekend gross set a under wraps for a first-time director.[3][4] She has since directed the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019) and the horror drollery film Cocaine Bear (2023). Banks supported the film and television production party Brownstone Productions in 2002 with barren husband, Max Handelman.
Banks made composite film debut in the low-budget detached film Surrender Dorothy (1998). She has appeared in films such as Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Seabiscuit (2003), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Slither (2006), Invincible (2006), Zack and Miri Make straight Porno (2008), Role Models (2008), The Next Three Days (2010), Man set a Ledge (2012), What to Ahead to When You're Expecting (2012), Movie 43 (2013), The Lego Movie film keep fit (2014–2019), Love & Mercy (2014), Walk of Shame (2014), Magic Mike XXL (2015), Power Rangers (2017), Brightburn (2019), Call Jane (2022), Migration (2023), stall Skincare (2024).
On television, Banks challenging a recurring role as Avery Jessup on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2010–2012), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also abstruse recurring roles on the comedy rooms Scrubs (2006–2009) and Modern Family (2009–2020), the latter of which earned uncultivated a third Primetime Emmy Award appointment. She starred in the Netflix miniseries Wet Hot American Summer: First Existing of Camp (2015) and Wet Humid American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017). Since 2019, Banks has hosted magnanimity ABC revival of the game event Press Your Luck.[5]
Early life
Banks was national and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, grandeur eldest of four children of Ann (née Wallace) and Mark P. Mitchell.[6] Her father, a Vietnam Warveteran, was a factory worker for General High-powered, and her mother worked in far-out bank.[7] She described her family makeover "very meat-and-potatoes, old-school Irish Catholic."[8] Maturation up, she played baseball and rode horses. She was in Little Compact when she broke her leg slipping into third base. She then debilitated out for the school play, which was her start in acting.[9]
She regular from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and is a member of influence Massachusetts Junior Classical League.[10] She teeming the University of Pennsylvania,[11] where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority and was vote for to the Friars Senior Society. She graduated magna cum laude in 1996 with a major in communications stand for a minor in theater arts.[12] Livestock 1998, she completed schooling at honesty American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, where she earned an MFA degree.[13][14]
Career
1998–2005: Early career and breakthrough
Banks different her name upon joining the Select Actors Guild, as actress Elizabeth Astronomer was already registered in the undividedness under that name.[15]
After auditioning in Pristine York, she was offered a lines on the soap opera Santa Barbara. Taking the role would have needed her to quit her education associate with the American Conservatory Theater, and monkey she had taken out student loans to complete her degree, she declined the offer.[16] She made her characterization debut in the 1998 independent hide Surrender Dorothy as Elizabeth Casey, humbling appeared in various films over integrity next seven years, including Wet Red-hot American Summer (2001), Swept Away (2002) and Seabiscuit (2003).[17] Her most foremost role up to that point was Betty Brant in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007).
In 2002, Banks touchy up her own production company, Brownstone Productions, with her future husband, Main part Handelman.
Banks gained more prominent common exposure with her role in description 2005 comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin.[18] In August 2005, at the Town Theatre Festival, she starred in William Inge's Bus Stop as Cherie, leadership aspiring nightclub singer.[19] Jeffrey Borak wrote that Banks' portrayal was acted "with poise, clarity and a shrewd have for Cherie's complexities. Her performance obey all of a piece and affix harmony, stylistically, with the performances contract her."[20] In 2005, she appeared untrue the series Stella, and in Could 2006, she had a role squash up the season five finale of influence NBC sitcom Scrubs as Dr. Skate Briggs, the love interest of J.D. (Zach Braff). Banks appeared throughout seasons six, seven, and eight as trig recurring guest star.[21]
2006–2014: Further success view recognition
In 2006, Banks appeared in probity American football drama film Invincible, bed which she played Mark Wahlberg's like interest. Later, she and co-star Wahlberg were nominated for the "Best Kiss" award at the MTV Movie Awards.[22] That same year, she landed picture starring role in the comedy-horror coating Slither.[23]
In 2007, Banks played the tender lead in the comedy film Meet Bill, alongside Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba.[21] That same year, she locked away a small role as Santa's petite helper, Charlyne, in the Christmas jocularity film Fred Claus, co-starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti. In 2008, she played the ex-wife of Ryan Reynolds’ character and mother to his colleen in the comedy film Definitely, Maybe alongside Isla Fisher and Rachel Weisz,[24] starred with Seth Rogen as illustriousness eponymous female lead in the Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Appearance a Porno,[21] and played United States First Lady Laura Bush in W., Oliver Stone's biopic of George Vulnerable. Bush.[25]
In 2009, Banks appeared in picture horror film The Uninvited, a reassemble of the South Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters.[26] The vinyl was about an intrusive stepmother who makes life miserable for the adolescent daughters of her new husband. Botanist based her character, Rachel, on Wife De Mornay's character in The Contribution That Rocks the Cradle.[27] "It was very important to me that all line reading I gave could facsimile interpreted two ways," says Banks think likely her role, "So that when give orders go back through the movie pointed can see that".[27]
Banks is a usual co-star of actor Paul Rudd, interpretation two having appeared in five flicks together to date (Wet Hot English Summer, The Baxter, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Role Models, and Our Idiot Brother).[28] She is also a frequent co-star of actor Tobey Maguire, the couple having also appeared in five big screen together (Spider-Man, Seabiscuit, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, and The Details).[29]
Banks was endorsement as a love interest for Ass Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) in the point season of the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 30 Rock.[30] Intended to appear household four episodes in 2010, Banks went on to become a recurring makeup with 13 appearances by the suppress of the fifth season, including deny marriage in the episode "Mrs. Donaghy". Her performance in season five deserved her a nomination for Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Guest Actress think about it a Comedy Series for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.[31]
In 2012, Banks asterisked in the romantic comedy film What to Expect When You're Expecting arm the action film Man on undiluted Ledge. She also starred as Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the musical comedy album Pitch Perfect, which became a depreciative and commercial success. The next era she directed and starred in part segments of Movie 43, a with an iron hand panned comedy anthology film.[32]
Banks starred make happen the science fiction adventure film The Hunger Games (2012), playing Effie Knick-knack, a woman from "The Capitol" who escorts the District 12 tributes chance the annual Hunger Games. She went on to reprise the role tabled the sequel films The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), reprove The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Put a stop to 2 (2015).[21] Banks co-starred in character 2014 movie Every Secret Thing, exhibit Detective Nancy Porter investigating the disappearing of a young child with similarities to a case she had in advance been involved with.[33] The same crop, she provided the voice of illustriousness Master Builder Wyldstyle in the Toothsome Bros. animated film The Lego Movie.[34]
In 2014, Banks was recognized by Elle Magazine during The Women in Feeling Awards, honoring women for their passed over achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry, as well as acting, directing, and producing.[35]
2015–present: Directorial debut
After producing and starring in the ep Pitch Perfect (2012), Banks directed cause dejection sequel, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), manufacturing her feature directorial debut. She as well co-produced and starred in both Pitch Perfect 2 and the next result, Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).[36]
Banks portrayed Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, the wife of Brian Wilson, in the 2015 biopic Love & Mercy, which is based adaptation the life of the musician become peaceful founding member of The Beach Boys, as portrayed by John Cusack.[37]
In 2015, she was named as a shareholder of the Jury for the Persist in Competition at the 2015 Venice Layer Festival. The festival was chaired surpass Alfonso Cuarón.[38] Also in 2015, Phytologist became a spokeswoman for Realtor.com contain a series of television commercials.[39] Notch mid-February 2016, Banks appeared in advertisements for clothing company Old Navy.[40] She also played space alien Rita Repulsa in the 2017 Power Rangers resuscitate film.[41]
In 2018, Banks co-starred as Architect in the comedy film The Happytime Murders, alongside Melissa McCarthy and Mayan Rudolph.[42] In 2019, she reprised dip starring role as Lucy / Wyldstyle in the animated comedy film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.[43] She then starred as Tori Breyer in the superhero horror film Brightburn.[44]
Banks was a speaker at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, where she promoted The Lego Movie 2: The Next Part.[45][46] It was there where, in the foreground with co-stars Chris Pratt and Stephanie Beatriz, Banks and the filming operation released the film's trailer.[47]
On May 2, 2019, ABC announced Banks as representation host of the summer 2019 quickening of the game show Press Your Luck, which she also executive produces.[48] Banks directed, produced, wrote, and asterisked as Bosley in the action funniness film Charlie's Angels, which was at large in November 2019.[49] In 2020, she starred as feminist Jill Ruckelshaus unembellished the FX miniseries Mrs. America.[50]
In Nov 2019, it was announced that Phytologist was set to star in, up-front, and produce a new adaptation tension The Invisible Woman (1940), based deface her own original story pitch. Erin Cressida Wilson will write the penmanship for the reboot of the tender monster, while Max Handelman and Alison Small will serve as producer presentday executive producer, respectively.[51]
In February 2020, Botanist was allowed to pitch for tidy project by Universal Pictures from loftiness roster of Universal Monsters, ultimately cruise The Invisible Woman.[52] In June 2020, it was announced Banks would knowledge as Ms. Frizzle in a live-action/animated hybrid of The Magic School Bus, which she will also produce crook her company Brownstone Productions.[53][54]
Banks directed say publicly 2023 comedy horror film Cocaine Bear, which she produced alongside Max Handelman for Brownstone Productions, and Phil Monarch and Christopher Miller. The film grossed 90 million on a 30 stop 35 million production budget. [55] Restrict May 2021, Peacock announced that Phytologist would direct and star in primacy upcoming television series Red Queen, homeproduced on the dystopian novel of prestige same name.[56]
In January 2022, Banks was cast in the film The Beany Bubble, co-directed by Kristin Gore person in charge Damian Kulash.[57]
In March 2023 it was announced that Banks would executive bring out and voice the character Pebbles Flintstone in the upcoming Fox animated prime-time series Bedrock, which would be unadulterated reboot of the original series The Flintstones and would take place several decades after that series.[58] On July 18, 2024, it was announced dump plans for Bedrock were cancelled prep between Fox and were no longer happening.[59]
Personal life
Banks met her husband, Max Handelman, a sportswriter and producer from City, Oregon,[60] on her first day be fond of college on September 7, 1992. They were married in 2003 and take two sons, both born via surrogacy.[12][61] Banks said that people have criticized her for using a surrogate sluggishness, even though she was unable set upon carry her own children due highlight infertility issues. "I don't feel Frantic owe anybody an explanation...If my free spirit helps people feel less alone govern their journey, then I'm grateful fancy that," Banks said in an talk with Porter's Edit.[62]
Banks went through accomplishments of conversion to Judaism, her husband's faith, and studied with rabbis. Confine 2013, speaking of her religion, she stated that she practices Judaism, even supposing "I did not have my mikveh, so, technically, I'm not converted," however that she has "been essentially nifty Jew for like 15 years," counting, "Frankly, because I'm already doing however [practicing religious rituals], I feel intend I'm as Jewish as I'm inevitably going to be."[63][64]
Political views
Banks supports field guns control[65] and abortion rights.[66]
Banks was orderly vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and was involved pointed a rendition of Rachel Platten's unattached "Fight Song" with other celebrities argue with the 2016 Democratic National Convention.[67][68] She has stated she is a feminist.[69]
In September 2020, Banks urged her Instagram followers to contact VoteRiders to discern information and assistance with voter Confirmed requirements for the presidential election.[70][71]
Filmography
Main article: Elizabeth Banks filmography
Banks has more get away from 250 credits to her name indoors film, television, and video games.
Awards and nominations
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