Elizabeth Banks is a very talented actress and filmmaker who played a major role in the "Hunger Games" series, and as a producer, she also directed "Perfect Tone 2" and the 2019 version of "Thunderbolt". She started her career with TV series and gained immense popularity through several high-scoring Hollywood films, eventually winning her two Emmys.
Elizabeth Banks can be said to be a very business-minded actress, she has shown full acting ability in different genres such as drama, comedy and science fiction.
Elizabeth Banks' academic career
Elizabeth Banks' father, Mark, works for General Electric and her mother is a bank employee, and she is the eldest of four children. Elizabeth Banks graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and also became a member of the Massachusetts Junior Classics League. He later entered the University of Pennsylvania with a minor in Communication and Theatre Arts, and in 1996, Elizabeth Banks graduated summa laude, becoming the first person in her family to earn a college degree. Two years later, he earned a master's degree from the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, California.
Elizabeth Banks' acting career was honed
Elizabeth Banks used the gap between college to audition in New York before starting her career as an actress, when she honed her acting skills for a long time, and then was successfully invited to appear in the soap opera "Santa Barbara", but playing this role required her to temporarily drop out of school, and for her future, Elizabeth Banks finally decided to give up this opportunity and continue to complete her degree.
As soon as she graduated in 1998, Elizabeth Banks ushered in the beginning of her acting career, making her debut in the independent film "Hand Over Dorothy" as Elizabeth Casey, around the same time, she opened the door to the TV series and played a role in "My Children".
Elizabeth Banks has reached new heights in her career
From 2002 to 2005, Elizabeth Banks' career reached new heights, successively participated in the "Spider-Man" series and "Man Forty-One Flowers", especially the 2003 film "Galloping Age", which became one of the very successful films of the year, receiving 8 nominations in the 76th Academy Awards, for which Elizabeth Banks also won the Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance Award.
But what took her career a step further was the 2010 film "Three Days of Danger" and "Perfect Tone" as a first-time producer. Her roles in the TV sitcoms "I'm a Comedian Season 1" and "Modern Family" also earned her 3 Emmy primetime nominations.
Elizabeth Banks pays tribute to The Hunger Games
From 2012 to 2015, Elizabeth Banks starred in her highest-grossing film series to date, The Hunger Games. She said in an interview: "I play Effie as a quirky and complex woman, but she makes everything very positive. Brave Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is bound to collide with the greatest moment when facing this overly positive, super-enthusiastic Effie. ”
While Elizabeth Banks loved the role, she wasn't so happy with the character's fashion choices. She said: "The shoes I wear in the film are very uncomfortable, and I often complain to director Gary Ross that these shoes are killing me. ”
Elizabeth Banks won the Grand Prize for a niche film
In 2015, Elizabeth Banks played John Cusack's wife, Melinda, in the critically acclaimed biopic Love and Mercy, based on the life trajectory of legendary musician Brian Wilson. Although the film failed at the box office, it was well received by her fans and critics, which also brought good luck to Elizabeth Banks, who won the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Award for Outstanding Actor of the Year and the Las Vegas Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Elizabeth Banks met her husband, Max Handelman, on her first day of college
In 1992, Elizabeth Banks met her husband, Max Handelman, on her first day of college. After two decades of love, the two chose to marry in 2013 and raised two sons together, Felix and Magnus.
The union of the two is not only in marriage, but also complements each other in career. After college, Max Handelman pursued an MBA, while Elizabeth Banks embarked on a thriving acting career. Early in their relationship, careers occupied most of their time, with Max Handelman becoming a director of News Corp. while Elizabeth Banks made films everywhere.
Elizabeth Banks then came up with the idea of starting a film and television production company with her husband. "He works 80 hours a week and I shoot on location for up to eight months of the year, so setting up the company was really about aligning our professional and personal goals," she says. In the past two years, their production company has released acclaimed films such as "Future Soldier", "Perfect Tone" and the 2019 reboot "Thunderbolt Baby".