Elizabeth Banks - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile

Biography

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Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell on February 10, 1974 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA) is an American actress most famous for her roles in Seabiscuit, Heights, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 (playing the part of Betty Brant), and quickly gaining widespread exposure through movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Slither.

In May of 2006 she appeared in the season five finale of the NBC sitcom Scrubs as Dr. Kim Briggs, Urologist, who is the love interest of J.D. (Zach Braff). Series creator Bill Lawrence has stated that Elizabeth will only be in the first few episodes of season 6.

She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1996). In 1998 she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater.

She is a convert to Judaism. In 2003 Banks married Max Handelman, who had been her boyfriend since college.

Filmography

Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Bill (2007)
Invincible (2006)
Slither (2006)
Heights (2005)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Daltry Calhoun (2005)
The Baxter (2005)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Swept Away (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Shaft (2000)

Television Credits

Sex and the City
Third Watch
All My Children
Scrubs
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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