Elizabeth Banks - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

She followed that box office smash up with an appearance in director Guy Ritchie’s ill-received remake “Swept Away” (2002) as one of the socialites boating with Madonna, but she quickly rebounded with another small but eye-grabbing role in director Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” (2002), as a bank teller who is unwittingly instrumental in teaching young con artist Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) some tricks of the con-artistry trade. Her new cachet inspired Movieline magazine to dub her one of Young Hollywood’s up-and-comers, and she followed up on her potential with another small but winning roles, playing Jeff Bridges lively, devoted young second wife Marcela in the true-life story of racehorse and folk hero “Seabiscuit” (2003), before returning to the world of superheroic romance for the sequel “Spider-Man 2” (2004). Banks then gave a strong performance in “Heights” (2005), a weighty romantic drama in which she played a NYC photographer whose second thoughts about her pending marriage to a lawyer (James Mardsen) sparks life decisions for her and four others in the span of one night. Shifting gears effectively into high comedy for "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" (2005) Banks was a hoot as the sexually charged bookstore clerk who sets her eyes on Steve Carell's intercourse-impaired electronics salesman. 

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Elizabeth Banks Photo Galleries	# of Pictures
Candid	9
Candid	1
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	59
Interviews	1
Screen Capture + Candid	73