Elizabeth Mitchell Maresal, aka Elizabeth Banks is an American actress born February 10, 1974 in Pittsfield, a small town in Massachusetts. Elizabeth had an uneventful childhood. After brilliantly graduated graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, she decided to follow the drama class of the renowned American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco's. Daughter of Mark, a factory worker for General Electric and Ann Mitchell, bank employee, Elizabeth is the oldest of four children of the couple. Child, she ran the game show Finders Keepers, which aired on Nickelodeon.
In 1992, she graduated from high school in Pittsfield, and has a high school education at the University of Pennsylvania, part of Delta Delta Delta (she earned a BA magna cum laude in 1996 ). Elizabeth Banks studied theater at the American Conservatory Theater's Advanced Trainig Program in San Francisco, where she graduated in 1998. After graduation, she moved to New York. She received a degree in 1998 and moved to New York in the same year to begin an acting career. The actress decided to change its name to avoid confusion with actress Elizabeth Mitchell. It starts on the boards, made appearances in several films and series are known as Sex and the City or Shaft.
It really makes its first steps the cinema in Surrender Dorothy, a psychosexual drama by director Kevin Dinovis in which Elizabeth plays the role of Vicky. But it was not until 2002 that his fortunes truly and she begins to know its early success through his involvement in the saga of Spider-Man alongside Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. she played Betty Brant the Secretary of J. Jonah Jameson, Daily Bugle and resume the role of journalism in all three Spider-Man follows. The eclectic Elizabeth then goes on filming in several films like Catch Me If You Can by Steven Spielberg in 2002, Thoroughbred legend of Seabiscuitby Gary Ross in 2003, The Baxter of Michael Showalter and managed to charm the audience with this film that he can say goodbye to small roles.
In 2003, she married Max Handelman. . Together, they founded their own production company, Brownstone. When she is not playing, she produced the films of others. Since 5 July 2003, she married Max Handelman, an old university friend she met on 6 September 1992. She converted to Judaism when she married. Late March 2011, she became the mother via a surrogate mother of a boy named Felix: indeed, with her ??husband, she used to serve a surrogate mother, after several unsuccessful attempts to get pregnant. In 2005 Elizabethplays several important roles, including in Slither from James Gunn, The baxter of Michael Showalter and above 40 years old and still a virginof Judd Apatow, a hilarious comedy about sex.
If Elizabeth Banks does not make it a favorite subject, however it differs from the current puritanical in force for several years in the U.S., utilizing words that offend the good society. She does not hesitate to play the main role of a comedy, performed by the much-maligned Kevin Smith and produced by the brothers Weinstein: Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The film is already the subject of a ban on under 18. She wants to continue his career as an actress, a producer who makes completely happy as she makes the encounters that. Elizabeth Marvel still wants to go soon writing and dream to tour with his favorite actors: Meryl Streep and Harrison Ford.
Elizabeth Banks is pleased that Hollywood has not yet succeeded in the catalog, however, already has a nice bit of career to his credit, of Slither from James Gunn to call me Dave with Eddie Murphy in 2008, through Scrubs, the famous series she joined in 2007, it has more than 30 films in less than ten years!. Elizabeth is not ready to stop trying since a new experience with the production of clones of Jonathan Mostow with Bruce Willis and it will play Laura Bush U.S. president's wife in the film of Oliver Stone. Before you see in the Clones, it is found in the horror film The Uninvited.