Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks is an American film actress, was born on February 10, 1974 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in a simple family. Her father, Mark Mitchell, worked at a General Electric plant, and her mother, Anne Mitchell, worked as a bank employee. Elizabeth is the eldest of four children in the Mitchell family. As a child, Eliza took part in the children's show Finders Keepers on the Nickelodeon Channel. After graduating from high school, the girl entered the University of Pennsylvania, which she more

Elizabeth Banks is an American film actress, was born on February 10, 1974 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in a simple family. Her father, Mark Mitchell, worked at a General Electric plant, and her mother, Anne Mitchell, worked as a bank employee.
Elizabeth is the eldest of four children in the Mitchell family. As a child, Eliza took part in the children's show Finders Keepers on the Nickelodeon Channel. After graduating from high school, the girl entered the University of Pennsylvania, which she graduated with honors, and in 1988 she successfully graduated from the American Conservatory Theater.
In order not to be confused with actress Elizabeth Mitchell in the future, the actress decided to change her name to Banks in order to prevent all sorts of troubles. Elizabeth made her debut in the independent film Surrender Dorothy under her new surname.
Great popularity of the actress brought films "Favorite" Director Gary Ross and “Height” Chris Terrio, as well as the acclaimed picture “Spider-Man”, where Elizabeth played the role of Betty Brant. Remembered the actress and shooting in the comedy “Hot American Summer”, where she miraculously coped with the role of Lindsay and others.

In 2005, the film Sisters was released, where Elizabeth Banks played the role of Nancy Picket. Very fruitful in the acting career of Banks was 2006, when the actress was able to play in three films at once. This is the film “Overcoming” (the role of Janet Kentwell) and the film “Slug” (the role of Starla Grant).
In the series “Clinic”, the filming of which lasted three years, the actress played the role of Dr. Kim Briggs. Elizabeth’s debut in it was so successful that the actress was returned to the series several times to continue filming.
In 2008, the actress very professionally and talentedly played the role of the first lady of the United States – Laura Bush in the film “Bush”, directed by Oliver Stone.
In July 2003, Elizabeth Banks married her childhood friend Max Handelman. In 2011, the wife gave her husband a son Felix. Since Elizabeth tried unsuccessfully to get pregnant for many years, a surrogate mother carried the boy for the couple. /