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Elizabeth Banks

Birth name: Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell

Birth date: 10.02.1974

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.

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Filmography

# The H-Man Cometh (2010) # Lovely, Still (2009) .... Alex # Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) (post-production) .... Miri # W. (2008) .... Laura Bush # The Uninvited (2009) .... Rachael # Role Models (2008) # Meet Dave (2008) .... Gina Morrison # Definitely, Maybe (2008) .... Emily ... aka Un jour, peut-être (France) # "Comanche Moon" (2008) TV mini-series .... Maggie # Fred Claus (2007) .... Charlene # "Scrubs" .... Dr. Kim Briggs (13 episodes, 2006-2007) - My Hard Labor (2007) TV episode .... Dr. Kim Briggs - My Own Worst Enemy (2007) TV episode .... Dr. Kim Briggs - My Point of No Return (2007) TV episode .... Dr. Kim Briggs - My Rabbit (2007) TV episode .... Dr. Kim Briggs - My Conventional Wisdom (2007) TV episode .... Dr. Kim Briggs (8 more) # "American Dad!" .... Becky Arangino (1 episode, 2007) - The Vacation Goo (2007) TV episode (voice) .... Becky Arangino # Bill (2007) .... Jess ... aka Meet Bill (USA: new title) # "Wainy Days" .... Shelly (2 episodes, 2007) - The Date (2007) TV episode .... Shelly - Shelly (2007) TV episode .... Shelly # Spider-Man 3 (2007) .... Miss Brant ... aka Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # Invincible (2006) .... Janet Cantrell # Slither (2006) .... Starla Grant ... aka Incisions (Canada: French title) # Daltry Calhoun (2005) .... May # The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) .... Beth ... aka The 40 Year-Old Virgin (USA: poster title) ... aka The 40-Year-Old Virgin (USA: DVD box title) # "Stella" .... Tamara (1 episode, 2005) - Meeting Girls (2005) TV episode .... Tamara # The Baxter (2005) .... Caroline Swann # The Sisters (2005) .... Nancy Pecket # Sexual Life (2005) .... Sarah # Heights (2005) .... Isabel # Spider-Man 2 (2004) .... Miss Brant ... aka Spider-Man 2.1 (USA: recut version) ... aka Spider-Man 2: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # Seabiscuit (2003) .... Marcela Howard # The Trade (2003) .... Sioux Sever # Stella Shorts 1998-2002 (2002) (V) .... Woman at Yoga Class # Catch Me If You Can (2002) .... Lucy # "Without a Trace" .... Clarissa (1 episode, 2002) ... aka W.A.T (USA: short title) - Snatch Back (2002) TV episode .... Clarissa # Swept Away (2002) .... Debi ... aka Travolti dal destino (Italy) # Spider-Man (2002) .... Betty Brant # "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" .... Jaina Jansen (1 episode, 2001) ... aka Law & Order: SVU (USA: promotional abbreviation) ... aka Special Victims Unit (New Zealand: English title) - Sacrifice (2001) TV episode .... Jaina Jansen # Ordinary Sinner (2001) .... Rachel # Wet Hot American Summer (2001) .... Lindsay # Shaft (2000) (as Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) .... Trey's Friends ... aka Shaft - Noch Fragen? (Germany) # "Sex and the City" .... Catherine (1 episode, 2000) - Politically Erect (2000) TV episode (as Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) .... Catherine # "Third Watch" .... Elaine Elchisak (1 episode, 1999) - Patterns (1999) TV episode (as Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) .... Elaine Elchisak # Surrender Dorothy (1998) (as Elizabeth Casey) .... Vicki