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Elizabeth Banks
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Biography

Actress Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She describes herself as having been seen as a \"goody two-shoes\" in her youth who was nominated to be the local Harvest Queen.

Banks left home to attend college at the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated Magna cum Laude, and went on to attend the Advanced Training Program at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, from which she graduated in 1998. She then moved to New York and worked in the theater as well as obtaining her first roles on-screen, small parts in movies and guest-star roles on television series. Seeking more screen work, Banks moved to Los Angeles and the supporting roles soon came, and required that she change her name to avoid confusion with another actress named Elizabeth Mitchell who had already established herself. Her first signal success came in her delightful, brief performance in Spider-Man (2002), for which she is best known despite subsequent leading roles, as \"Betty Brant\", the secretary of the cantankerous newspaper tycoon. (Banks has reprised the role in the Spider-Man series.)

Banks followed up her performance in Spider-Man with small roles in other movies released that year, Swept Away (2002) and Steven Spielberg\'s Catch Me If You Can (2002), in which she plays a bank clerk who assists the young Frank Abagnale with vital information about bank checking policies. More recognition came with Seabiscuit (2003), in which Banks charmed audiences playing the wife of Seabiscuit\'s owner \"Charles Howard\", and Banks was able to broker these successes into leading roles, in Michael Showalter\'s The Baxter (2005) and James Gunn\'s Slither (2006).

The winsome, beautiful Banks projects an exceptionally-charming screen presence that has drawn comparisons to Audrey Hepburn. Though her off-screen vocabulary is at times sprinkled with Valley-speak, her performances demonstrate solid acting skill and a keen intelligence. Banks and her boyfriend since college days, Max Handelman, married in 2003.

Elizabeth Banks stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
Shaft 2000 Meriden Hoyts 2000-07-12 ***
Wet Hot American Summer 2001 Suzy 2015-07-07 ** 1/2
Catch Me If You Can 2002 w/ Suzy on DVD 2003-06-14 ***
Spiderman 2002 at Branford Hoyts 2002-05-03 *** 1/2
Seabiscuit 2003 w/ Suzy on DVD 2003-12-27 ** 1/2
Spiderman 2 2004 in Tampa, FL 2004-10-04 ** 1/2
The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 2006-10-15 * 1/2
Fred Claus 2007 Family 2008-12-12 **
Definitely, Maybe 2008 Family 2009-01-10 *** 1/2
The Next Three Days 2010 Suzy 2013-07-01 ** 1/2
Our Idiot Brother 2011 Suzy 2012-01-06 **
The Hunger Games 2012 Suzy and Hanna 2014-08-09 ** 1/2
Pitch Perfect 2012 Suzy and Hanna 2017-12-16 **
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 Suzy and Hanna 2014-02-05 **
The Lego Movie 2014 Hanna at Middletown 2014-02-16 ***
Love & Mercy 2014 Suzy 2015-09-02 ***
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2015 Suzy and Hanna 2016-03-11 * 1/2
Pitch Perfect 2 2015 Suzy and Hanna 2017-12-29 **
Pitch Perfect 3 2017 Suzy and Hanna 2018-03-10 * 1/2
The Happytime Murders 2018 Suzy and Hanna 2018-12-15 ** 1/2
Charlie's Angels 2019 Suzy and Hanna 2020-02-14 * 1/2