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Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress, producer, and director. She is known for playing chaperone Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), Wildstyle in The Lego Movie franchise, and the ICCA Commentator in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), whose $69 million opening-weekend gross set a record for a first-time director. She has since directed the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019) and the horror comedy film Cocaine Bears (2023)
Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy (1998). She has appeared in 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 a Porno (2008), Role Models (2008), The Next Three Days (2010), Man on a Ledge (2012), What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012), Movie 43 (2013), The Lego Movie (2014) and its sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), Love & Mercy (2014), Walk of Shame (2014
On television, Banks had a recurring role as Avery Jessup in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2010–2012), which earned her two TV shows. She earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also had recurring roles in the comedy series Scrubs (2006–2009) and Modern Family (2009–2020), the latter of which earned her a third Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She starred in the Netflix miniseries Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017). Since 2019, Banks has hosted the ABC revival of the game show Press Your Luck.
Banks was born and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann (née Wallace) and Mark P. Mitchell.Her father, a Vietnam War veteran, was a factory worker for General Electric, and her mother worked in a bank.She described her family as "very meat-and-potatoes, old-school Irish Catholic". Growing up, she played baseball and rode horses. She was in Little League when she broke her leg sliding into third base. She then tried out for the school play, which was her start in 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 Delta sorority and was elected to the Friars Senior Society. She graduated magna cum laude in 1996 with a major in communications and a minor in theater arts. In 1998, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, where she earned an MFA degree.
Personal life
Banks during a USO tour at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan in 2015
Banks met her husband Max Handelman, a sports writer and producer from Portland, Oregon,on her first day of college on September 7, 1992. They married in 2003 and have two sons, born via surrogacy.
Banks underwent part of a conversion to Judaism, her husband's religion, and studied with rabbis. In 2013, speaking about her religion, she said she practices Judaism, although "I haven't had my mikveh, so, technically , I'm not a convert," but that she "has been basically Jewish for about 15 years," adding "Frankly, because I'm already doing everything [practicing religious rituals], I think I'm as Jewish as I'm ever going to be."
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