Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks

1974-02-10 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA 102 Credits

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 di...

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A Mistake

A Mistake

2024

as Liz Taylor

6.1
Acting

In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to clos...

Skincare

Skincare

2024

as Hope Goldman

5.9
Acting

Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skin care line. However, she soon faces a new ...

Migration

Migration

2023

as Pam Mallard (voice)

7.4
Acting

After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, the Mallard family embarks on a family road trip, from N...

Cat Person

Cat Person

2023

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting ...

Show Her the Money

Show Her the Money

2023

as Herself

10.0
Acting

This is a story that’s never been told. SHOW HER THE MONEY addresses how women are getting less than 2% of venture capital funding and demystifies wha...

Bottoms

Bottoms

2023

Producer

6.7
Producing

Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over th...

The Beanie Bubble

The Beanie Bubble

2023

as Robbie

6.4
Acting

Ty was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women turned his stuffed animals into a defining '90s trend. This behind-the-scene...

Cocaine Bear: The True Story

Cocaine Bear: The True Story

2023

Executive Producer

5.2
Producing

The bizarre, stranger than fiction tale behind the hit Hollywood movie "Cocaine Bear," involving international drug smuggling, murder, mayhem, and a m...

Cocaine Bear

Cocaine Bear

2023

Producer, Director

6.0
Producing Directing

Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a ...

Call Jane

Call Jane

2022

as Joy

6.4
Acting

A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to...

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

2022

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from J...

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels

2019

as Boz

6.4
Acting

Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It wi...

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels

2019

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.4
Directing Writing Producing

Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It wi...

Brightburn

Brightburn

2019

as Tori Breyer

6.1
Acting

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

2019

as Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)

6.7
Acting

It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking every...

Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short

Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short

2018

as Lucy / Wyldstyle (voice)

6.3
Acting

There’s nothing like the holidays in Apocalypseburg!

The Happytime Murders

The Happytime Murders

2018

as Jenny

5.8
Acting

In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to ...

Pitch Perfect 3

Pitch Perfect 3

2017

as Gail

6.5
Acting

After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music...

Pitch Perfect 3

Pitch Perfect 3

2017

Producer

6.5
Producing

After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music...

Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase

Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase

2017

as Bird-Lady

7.0
Acting

A playful bird snatches Abby's magic wand during a hot-air balloon ride leaving Elmo, Abby and friends on a colorful adventure.

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

2017

as Herself - Host

Acting

In 1916, the highest paid silent film director at Universal Studios was a woman named Lois Weber. Yet today, she is virtually unknown. "Yours Sincerel...

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

2017

Executive Producer

Producing

In 1916, the highest paid silent film director at Universal Studios was a woman named Lois Weber. Yet today, she is virtually unknown. "Yours Sincerel...

The Power of the Present

The Power of the Present

2017

as Self - Green Ranger (2017)

8.7
Acting

Exploring the history of the 'Power Rangers' franchise, casting, special effects and music.

The Most Hated Woman in America

The Most Hated Woman in America

2017

Producer

6.2
Producing

The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.

Power Rangers

Power Rangers

2017

as Rita Repulsa / The Green Ranger

6.3
Acting

Five ordinary teens must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of bein...

Asteroids!

Asteroids!

2017

as Cheez

5.0
Acting

Mac and Cheez are back, this time on a deep space adventure. Joined by their robot sidekick, their spaceship is endangered by teeth-gnashing space bug...

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

as Effie Trinket

6.9
Acting

With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – inc...

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

2015

as Self

6.4
Acting

Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the comic minds behind a "Wet Hot" summer-camp cult hit featuring many future stars.

Magic Mike XXL

Magic Mike XXL

2015

as Paris

6.2
Acting

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put ...

Love & Mercy

Love & Mercy

2015

as Melinda Ledbetter

7.1
Acting

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the s...

Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect 2

2015

as Gail Abernathy-McKadden

6.8
Acting

The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, ...

Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect 2

2015

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, ...

Resident Advisors

Resident Advisors

2015

as Doctor

Acting

Enter the dorm scene's pseudo-managers -- the resident advisors.

Straight from the Heart: A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman

2015

as Self

Acting

An homage to the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015

as Self (Effie Trinket)

7.2
Acting

Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes that look at a var...

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

as Effie Trinket

6.8
Acting

Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials

2014

as Various (voice) (archive sound)

8.3
Acting

This DVD release features six Christmas special episodes from Robot Chicken's hilariously outrageous 6 seasons, plus comes loaded with holiday-themed ...

Walk of Shame

Walk of Shame

2014

as Meghan

6.0
Acting

A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or m...

Every Secret Thing

Every Secret Thing

2014

as Detective Nancy Porter

6.1
Acting

One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released...

Little Accidents

Little Accidents

2014

as Diane Doyle

5.5
Acting

In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a survi...

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2014

as Self (Effie Trinket)

5.8
Acting

An incredibly in depth and informative compendium of nine featurettes that address virtually every aspect of the film, from the adaptive process throu...

The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie

2014

as Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)

7.4
Acting

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from ...

Timms Valley

2013

as Beth Billings-Timms

6.2
Acting

A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and livelihoods of its citizens are intertwined with the fate ...

Face in the Crowd

Face in the Crowd

2013

as Face

Acting

A woman on a journey through a crowd grapples with private and public revelation, repulsion, fear, personal safety, and the desire for basic human int...

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

as Effie Trinket

7.4
Acting

Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they mu...

Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013

as Self

6.6
Acting

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

Movie 43

Movie 43

2013

as Amy (segment "Beezel")

4.6
Acting

A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest ...

Movie 43

Movie 43

2013

Director

4.6
Directing

A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest ...

Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special

Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special

2012

as Mrs. Claus / Shana 'Scarlett' O'Hara (voice)

Acting

The Robot Chicken Christmas Special has Santa nearly missing Christmas; Kano from Mortal Kombat shares the holidays with Mrs. Cage; Justin Bieber's ne...

The Details

The Details

2012

as Nealy Lang

6.0
Acting

When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chai...

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect

2012

as Gail Abernathy-McKadden

7.3
Acting

College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thru...

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect

2012

Producer

7.3
Producing

College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thru...

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

as Self (Effie Trinket)

8.2
Acting

A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and ma...

People Like Us

People Like Us

2012

as Frankie Davis

6.8
Acting

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must de...

What to Expect When You're Expecting

What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012

as Wendy Cooper

6.0
Acting

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; h...

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

2012

as Effie Trinket

7.2
Acting

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to comp...

Man on a Ledge

Man on a Ledge

2012

as Lydia Mercer

6.4
Acting

An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. H...

Just a Little Heart Attack

2011

as Woman

6.2
Acting

A short film about a supermom who takes care of everyone except herself.

Just a Little Heart Attack

2011

Director

6.2
Directing

A short film about a supermom who takes care of everyone except herself.

Our Idiot Brother

Our Idiot Brother

2011

as Miranda Rochlin

6.2
Acting

Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda an...

The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days

2010

as Lara

7.1
Acting

A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of murdering her boss. Her husband John would spend the next few years trying t...

Lovely, Still

Lovely, Still

2009

as Alex

6.6
Acting

A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

Surrogates

Surrogates

2009

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time i...

Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'

Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'

2009

as Self

7.2
Acting

The making of Kevin Smith's film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

The Uninvited

The Uninvited

2009

as Rachael

6.5
Acting

Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rach...

Big Breaks

2008

as Starlet

4.0
Acting

Penny and Sam work for a notoriously mean spirited, selfish, and somewhat abusive big fish Hollywood producer, MJ Siegel. They run a day's worth of ou...

Role Models

Role Models

2008

as Beth

6.5
Acting

Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 servi...

W.

W.

2008

as Laura Bush

6.2
Acting

The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up...

This Is Not Sex

2008

Acting

Sex sells. Sex kills. Sex thrills. "This Is Not Sex" pays homage to the subject of the upcoming Kevin Smith flick, "Zach and Miri Make A Porno",whilst...

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

2008

as Miri

6.3
Acting

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, howev...

Meet Dave

Meet Dave

2008

as Gina Morrison

5.3
Acting

A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ...

Definitely, Maybe

Definitely, Maybe

2008

as Emily

6.9
Acting

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second ch...

Fred Claus

Fred Claus

2007

as Charlene

5.8
Acting

Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes over...

Meet Bill

Meet Bill

2007

as Jess

6.0
Acting

A mild-mannered bank executive mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a doughnut merchant.

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3

2007

as Miss Brant

6.4
Acting

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers a...

Invincible

Invincible

2006

as Janet Cantrell

7.0
Acting

Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of...

Slither

Slither

2006

as Starla Grant

6.5
Acting

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

Daltry Calhoun

Daltry Calhoun

2005

as May

5.1
Acting

In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14...

The Baxter

The Baxter

2005

as Caroline Swann

6.1
Acting

A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he c...

The 40 Year Old Virgin

The 40 Year Old Virgin

2005

as Beth

6.4
Acting

Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn...

Heights

Heights

2005

as Isabel

6.6
Acting

Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

The Sisters

The Sisters

2005

as Nancy Pecket

5.0
Acting

Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile r...

Sexual Life

Sexual Life

2005

as Sarah

4.7
Acting

As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a teenager, a wedding photographer and a hotel desk ...

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2

2004

as Miss Brant

7.3
Acting

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves th...

Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

2003

as Marcela Howard

7.1
Acting

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation...

The Trade

The Trade

2003

as Sioux Sever

2.5
Acting

An up-and-coming trader must choose between the seduction of Wall Street and a return home to the woman and family he loves.

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

Stella Shorts 1998-2002

2002

as Yoga Student

3.7
Acting

STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black....

Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can

2002

as Lucy

8.0
Acting

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor...

Swept Away

Swept Away

2002

as Debi

4.8
Acting

Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.

Spider-Man

Spider-Man

2002

as Miss Brant

7.3
Acting

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to b...

Ordinary Sinner

Ordinary Sinner

2001

as Rachel

4.0
Acting

Three college students, two guys and a girl, encounter bigotry and violence in a small town, and solve the murder of a gay friend.

Wet Hot American Summer

Wet Hot American Summer

2001

as Lindsay

6.3
Acting

The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfi...

Shaft

Shaft

2000

as Trey's Friend

6.0
Acting

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...

Uninvited

Uninvited

2000

as Lady Reporter

3.5
Acting

A man is accused of murdering his childhood love and her entire family.

Surrender Dorothy

Surrender Dorothy

1998

as Vicki

4.7
Acting

Trevor is a busboy who is so terrified of women that he takes in a young man addicted to heroin and then uses the drug to manipulate, coerce, and terr...

DreamQuil

N/A

as Carol

Acting

A woman embarks on a virtual wellness retreat in order to get her life back on track - but with nightmarish consequences.

Where the Fore Are We?

N/A

Producer

Producing

After a crash landing leaves the passengers and crew of a commercial flight stranded for three months, the film follows members of this makeshift comm...

Foreign Relations

N/A

Producer

Producing

The Greater Good

N/A

Director

Directing

A single-camera comedy TV pilot. A comedic version of The X-Files. A relationship and workplace comedy set in the world of conspiracy theories.

DreamQuil

N/A

Producer

Producing

A woman embarks on a virtual wellness retreat in order to get her life back on track - but with nightmarish consequences.

Cocaine Bear 2

N/A

Producer

Producing

The sequel to the 2023 comedy thriller.

The Grace Year

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Tierney James lives in an isolated village where girls are banished at sixteen to the northern forest to brave the wilderness - and each other - for a...