Elizabeth Banks - Wikipedia. Elizabeth Irene Banks (née. Mitchell; [1][2] February 1. American actress, director, and producer. Banks made her film debut in the low- budget independent film Surrender Dorothy (1.
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Role Models (2. 00. The Next Three Days (2. Pitch Perfect (2. The Lego Movie (2. The Hunger Games film series (2. In 2. 01. 4, she portrayed Melinda Ledbetter, the girlfriend and later wife of the Beach Boys co- founder Brian Wilson, in the biographical drama Love & Mercy and made her directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2, whose $6.
On television, Banks had a recurring role as Avery Jessup on the NBC sitcom 3. Watch Arthur &Amp; Merlin Online Freeform there. Rock, which garnered her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also had recurring roles on the series Scrubs and Modern Family, the latter of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She reprised her role as Lindsay in Wet Hot American Summer for the Netflix miniseries Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2.
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2. As of August 2. 01. Box Office Mojo ranked Banks as the 3.
Early life[edit]Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and grew up on Brown Street, the eldest of four children of Ann (née Wallace) and Mark P. Mitchell.[7] Her father, a Vietnam veteran, was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank.[8] She has said that she grew up "Irish + WASP + Catholic".[9]Growing up, Banks 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.[1. She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1. Massachusetts Junior Classical League.[1. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority.
She graduated magna cum laude in 1. In 1. 99. 8, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, where she earned an MFA degree.[1. Banks changed her name to avoid confusion with actress Elizabeth Mitchell.[1. After auditioning in New York, she was offered a role on the soap opera Santa Barbara. Taking the role would have required her to quit her education at the American Conservatory Theatre, and Banks ultimately decided to forgo the offer due to having taken out student loans to complete her degree.[1. She made her acting debut in the 1. Surrender Dorothy, as Elizabeth Casey, and appeared in various films over the next seven years including Guy Ritchie's Swept Away[1.
The 4. 0- Year- Old Virgin.[1. In August 2. 00. 5, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Banks starred in William Inge's Bus Stop as Cherie, the sexy, blonde, aspiring nightclub singer.[1. Jeffrey Borak wrote that Banks' portrayal was acted "with poise, clarity and a shrewd feel for Cherie's complexities. Her performance is all of a piece and in harmony, stylistically, with the performances around her.."[2. In 2. 00. 5, she appeared on the series Stella, and in May 2. NBC sitcom Scrubs as Dr. Kim Briggs, the love interest of J.
D. (Zach Braff). The character appeared throughout seasons six, seven, and eight as a recurring guest star.[2. In 2. 00. 6, Banks appeared in the American football drama film Invincible, in which she played Mark Wahlberg's love interest. Later, she and co- star Wahlberg were nominated for the "Best Kiss" award at the MTV Movie Awards.[2. That same year, she landed the starring role in the comedy- horror film Slither.[2. In 2. 00. 7, Banks played the female lead in the comedy film Meet Bill, alongside Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba.[2. That same year, she had a small role in the Christmas comedy film Fred Claus, co- starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti as Santa's little helper, Charlyne.
In 2. 00. 8, she played the ex- wife and mother of the daughter of Ryan Reynolds lead in the comedy film Definitely, Maybe, alongside Isla Fisher and Ryan Reynolds,[2. Seth Rogen as the eponymous female lead in the Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno,[2. United States First Lady Laura Bush in W., Oliver Stone's biopic of George W. Bush.[2. 5]In 2. 00. Banks appeared in the horror film The Uninvited, a remake of the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters.[2. The film was about an intrusive stepmother who makes life miserable for the teen daughters of her new husband. Banks based her character, Rachel, on Rebecca De Mornay's character in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.[2.
It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways," says Banks of her role, "So that when you go back through the movie you can see that".[2. Banks is a frequent co- star of actor Paul Rudd, the two having appeared in five films together to date (Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The 4. Year- Old Virgin, Role Models, and Our Idiot Brother).[2. She is also a frequent co- star of actor Tobey Maguire, the two having also appeared in five films together (Spider- Man, Seabiscuit, Spider- Man 2, Spider- Man 3, and The Details).[2.
Banks was cast as a love interest for Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) in the fourth season of the Emmy Award- winning sitcom 3. Rock.[3. 0] Intended to appear in four episodes in 2.
Banks went on to become a recurring character with 1. Mrs. Donaghy. Her performance in season five earned her a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the 6. Primetime Emmy Awards.[3. In 2. 01. 2 Banks also starred in the film What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside Jennifer Lopez. Banks appeared in the movie The Hunger Games (2. Effie Trinket, a woman from "The Capitol" who escorts the District 1.
Hunger Games. She reprised the role in the films The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2. Banks co- starred in the 2. Every Secret Thing, playing Detective Nancy Porter investigating the disappearance of a young child with similarities to a case she had previously been involved with.[3. In 2. 01. 4, Banks was recognized by Elle Magazine during The Women in Hollywood Awards, honoring women for their outstanding achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing.[3. Banks portrayed Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, the wife of Brian Wilson, in the 2. Love and Mercy, which is based on the life of the legendary musician and founding member of The Beach Boys, as portrayed by John Cusack.[3. After producing and appearing, as Gail, in the first Pitch Perfect film, Banks directed its sequel, Pitch Perfect 2 (2.
She also produced the film, and again played Gail.[3. In 2. 01. 5, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2. Venice Film Festival. The festival is chaired by Alfonso Cuarón.[3. Also in 2. 01. 5, Banks became a spokeswoman for Realtor. As of mid- February 2.
Banks became the commercial face of Old Navy.[3. She also played space alien Rita Repulsa in the 2.
Power Rangers reboot film.[3. Personal life[edit]. Banks has lunch with US service members during a USO visit at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan in 2. Banks met her husband, Max Handelman, a sportswriter and producer from Portland, Oregon[4.
September 6, 1. 99. They were married in 2. She and her husband had their first child, Felix, who was born through a surrogate in March 2. In November 2. 01.
Banks announced the birth of another son, Magnus Mitchell, also by surrogate.[4. Banks went through parts of conversion to Judaism, her husband's faith, and studied with rabbis. In 2. 01. 3, speaking of her religion, she stated that she practices Judaism, though "I did not have my mikveh, so technically I'm not converted", but that she has "been essentially a Jew for like 1. Frankly, because I'm already doing everything [practicing religious rituals], I feel like I'm as Jewish as I'm ever going to be".[4. Banks was a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton's 2.
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