Elizabeth Irene Banks is an American actress, director, and producer. She is known for her starring role as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series and as Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the Pitch Perfect film series. She made her directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2, whose $69 million opening-weekend gross set a record for a first-time director.Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy. She starred in the films Wet Hot American Summer, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Seabiscuit, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Slither, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Role Models, The Next Three Days, Man on a Ledge, What to Expect When You're Expecting, The Lego Movie, Love & Mercy, Magic Mike XXL, and Power Rangers, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, and Brightburn.