Elizabeth Banks

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February 10, 1974

Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell

Max Handelman (5 July 2003 - present)

Actress

2012 Welcome to People

2012 Man on a Ledge

2011 Movie 43

2010-2011 30 Rock (TV series)

2011 My Idiot Brother

2011 The Details

2010 The Next Three Days

2009 Modern Family (TV series)

2006-2009 Scrubs (TV series)

2009 The Uninvited

2009 Big Breaks (short)

2007-2008 American Dad! (TV series)

2008 Role Models

2008 W.

2008 Zack and Miri Make a Porno

2008 Lovely, Still

2007-2008 Wainy Days (TV series short)

2008 Meet Dave

2008 Definitely, Maybe

2008 Comanche Moon (TV mini-series)

2007 Fred Claus

2007 Bill

2007 Spider-Man 3

2006 Invincible

2006 Slither

2005 Daltry Calhoun

2005 The 40 Year Old Virgin

2005 Stella (TV series)

2005 The Baxter

2005 The Sisters

2005 Sexual Life

2005 Heights

2004 Spider-Man 2

2003 Seabiscuit

2003 The Trade

2002 Stella Shorts 1998-2002 (video)

2002 Catch Me If You Can

2002 Without a Trace (TV series)

2002 Swept Away

2002 Spider-Man

2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)

2001 Ordinary Sinner

2001 Wet Hot American Summer

2000 Shaft

2000 Sex and the City (TV series)

1999 Third Watch (TV series)

1998 Surrender Dorothy

Producer

2009 Surrogates (executive producer)

Director

2011 Movie 43

2010 AIDS: We Did It! (short)

Appearances

2011 Janela Indiscreta (TV series)

2010 Film Fiend (TV series)

2008-2010 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2010 Stand Up to Cancer (TV special)

2010 Mr. Celebrity with Elizabeth Banks (video short)

2010 The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV series)

2010 The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

2010 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)

2008-2010 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)

2009 The Jay Leno Show (TV series)

2009 The Movie Loft (TV series)

2009 Money Shots (video)

2009 Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' (video documentary)

2009 The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV movie)

2009 The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards

2005-2008 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series)

2008 Xposé (TV series)

2008 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV series)

2008 Reel Comedy (TV series)

2008 Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV series)

2008 Today (TV series)

2008 A Night for Vets: An MTV Concert for the Brave (TV special)

2006 Becoming Invincible: The True Story of Vince Papale (video documentary short)

2006 Last Call with Carson Daly (TV series)

2005 The Making of 'The Baxter' (TV short)

2004 Interwoven: the Women of Spider-Man (video documentary short)

2003 Young Hollywood Awards (TV special documentary)

MTV Movie Awards

2007 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Kiss for: Invincible (2006). Shared with: Mark Wahlberg

Screen Actors Guild Awards

2004 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for: Seabiscuit (2003).

Women in Film Crystal Awards

2009 Won Face of the Future

Young Hollywood Awards

2003 Won Young Hollywood Award Exciting New Face

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Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell (born February 10, 1974), known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. Banks had her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy. Since then, she has been well-known for her roles in Definitely, Maybe, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, W., Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, The Uninvited and the Spider-Man franchise. Banks has also portrayed roles as guest star in television shows through her career, including the role of Dr. Kim Briggs, Zach Braff's love interest in the television sitcom Scrubs, and her role as Avery Jessup, Jack Donaghy's wife in 30 Rock.

Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann and Mark Mitchell. Her father was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank. As a young child, she was a contestant on the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. In 1998, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater and earned an MFA.

Biography courtesy of Wikipedia

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