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|Years Active = 1998 - present |
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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Elizabeth Banks plays the character Sal on the hit T.V. series Modern Family. Banks' character has appeared twice throughout the whole run of show.
Early life and education
Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann and Mark Mitchell.[1] As a girl, she loved playing baseball and riding horses. She played little league until she broke her leg sliding into third at a game. Looking for something else, she tried the school play. After that, acting became her very passion.
Her father was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank.[2] As a young teenager, she was a contestant on the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and attended the University of Pennsylvania where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Banks graduated magna cum laude in 1996. In 1998, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater and earned an MFA.
Career
Banks changed her name to avoid confusion with actress Elizabeth Mitchell.[3] She debuted in the 1998 independent film Surrender Dorothy, as Elizabeth Casey, appeared in various films over the next seven years before gaining more prominent widespread exposure through the 2005 comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
In August 2005, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Banks starred in William Inge's Bus Stop as Cherie, the sexy, blond, aspiring nightclub singer.[4] Jeffrey Borak wrote that Banks' portrayal was acted "with poise, clarity and a shrewd feel for Cherie's complexities. Her performance is all of a piece and in harmony, stylistically, with the performances around her...."[5] In 2005, she appeared on the show Stella, and in May 2006, she had a role in the season five finale of the NBC comedy Scrubs as Dr. Kim Briggs, the love interest of J.D. (Zach Braff). The character appeared throughout seasons six, seven and eight as a recurring guest star.
In 2006, Banks appeared in the American football drama film Invincible, in which she played Mark Wahlberg's love interest. Later, she and co-star Wahlberg were nominated for the "Best Kiss" award at the MTV Movie Award. Also that year, she landed the starring role in the comedy-horror Slither.
In 2007, she played the female lead in the comedy Meet Bill, alongside Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba. Also that year, Banks had a small role in the Christmas comedy film Fred Claus, co-starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti. In 2008, she played a love interest in the comedy Definitely, Maybe, alongside Isla Fisher and Ryan Reynolds, starred with Seth Rogen as the eponymous female lead in the Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and played United States First Lady Laura Bush in W., Oliver Stone's biopic of George W. Bush.[6]
In 2009, Banks appeared in the thriller The Uninvited, a remake of the Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters.[7] The film was about an intrusive stepmother who makes life miserable for the teen daughters of her new husband. Banks based her character, Rachel, on Rebecca De Mornay's character in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle".[8] "It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways," says Banks of her role, "So that when you go back through the movie you can see that".[8]
Banks is a frequent co-star of actor Paul Rudd, the two having appeared in five films together to date (Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Role Models and Our Idiot Brother).[9]
Banks was cast as a love interest for Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) in the fourth season of the Emmy-winning sitcom 30 Rock.[10] Intended to appear in four episodes in 2010, Banks went on to become a recurring character with thirteen appearances by the end of the fifth season, including her marriage in the episode Mrs. Donaghy. Her performance in season five has earned her a nomination forPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, to be presented September 2011.
Personal life
On July 5, 2003, Banks married sportswriter and producer Max Handelman,[11] who had been her boyfriend since she met him on her first day at college, September 6, 1992.[12] She converted to Judaism upon marrying him.[13][14] She and her husband welcomed their first child, a boy named Felix, via gestational host in March 2011.[15]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Surrender Dorothy | Vicki | Credited as Elizabeth Casey |
| 2000 | Shaft | Trey's friend | Credited as Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell |
| 2001 | Wet Hot American Summer | Lindsay | |
| 2001 | Ordinary Sinner | Rachel | |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Betty Brant | |
| 2002 | Swept Away | Debi | |
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can | Lucy Forrest | |
| 2002 | Stella Shorts 1998-2002 | Woman at yoga class | Short films; direct-to-DVD release |
| 2003 | The Trade | Sioux Sever | |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | Marcela Howard | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2004 | Spider-Man 2 | Betty Brant | |
| 2005 | Heights | Isabel | |
| 2005 | Sexual Life | Sarah | |
| 2005 | The Sisters | Nancy Pecket | |
| 2005 | The Baxter | Caroline Swann | |
| 2005 | The 40-Year-Old Virgin | Beth | |
| 2005 | Daltry Calhoun | May | |
| 2006 | Slither | Starla Grant | |
| 2006 | Invincible | Janet Cantrell | Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (Shared with Mark Wahlberg) |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | Betty Brant | |
| 2007 | Meet Bill | Jess | |
| 2007 | Fred Claus | Charlene | |
| 2008 | Definitely, Maybe | Emily Jones | |
| 2008 | Meet Dave | Gina Morrison | |
| 2008 | Lovely, Still | Alex | |
| 2008 | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Miriam "Miri" Linky | |
| 2008 | W. | Laura Bush | Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2008 | Role Models | Beth Jones | |
| 2009 | Big Breaks | Starlet | Short film |
| 2009 | The Uninvited | Rachel Summers | |
| 2009 | Surrogates | Executive producer | |
| 2010 | The Details | Nealy Lang | |
| 2010 | The Next Three Days | Laura Brennan | |
| 2011 | Our Idiot Brother | Miranda | |
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Effie Trinket | Filming |
| 2012 | What to Expect When You're Expecting | Trish | Filming |
| 2012 | Movie 43 | Also director Post-production | |
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge | Lydia Anderson | Post-production |
| 2012 | Welcome to People | Frankie | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Third Watch | Elaine Elchisak | 1 episode: "Patterns" Credited as Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell |
| 2000 | Sex and the City | Catherine | 1 episode: "Politically Erect" |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Jaina Tobias Jansen | 1 episode: "Sacrifice" |
| 2002 | Without a Trace | Clarissa | 1 episode: "Snatch Back" |
| 2005 | Stella | Tamara | 1 episode: "Meeting Girls" |
| 2006–2007, 2009 | Scrubs | Dr. Kim Briggs | Recurring role |
| 2007–2008 | Wainy Days | Shelly | 3 episodes: "Shelly", "The Date", "Shelly 2" |
| 2007–2008 | American Dad! | Becky Arangino Lisa Silver |
3 episodes: "The Vacation Goo", "1600 Candles", "Escape from Pearl Bailey" |
| 2008 | Comanche Moon | Maggie Tilton | TV mini-series |
| 2009 | Modern Family | Sal | 2 episodes: "Great Expectations" |
| 2010–present | 30 Rock | Avery Jessup | Recurring role Pending—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series |
References
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- ↑ Sommer, Elyse. 2005, Curtain Up.
- ↑ Borak, Jeffrey 2005. "Love blooms in a Kansas diner", Berkshire Eagle August 20, Art section.
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- ↑ Elizabeth Banks to Head Out into the Dark Fields?
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- ↑ Tiger, Caroline 2010. "How to Succeed in Show Business by Really Really Trying". The Pennsylvania Gazette Jan.-Feb., Vol. 108, No. 3, pp. 46-50.
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- ↑ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20477493,00.html