Actress Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She describes herself as having been seen as a “goody two-shoes” in her youth who was nominated to be the local Harvest Queen.

Banks left home to attend college at the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated Magna cum Laude, and went on to attend the Advanced Training Program at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, from which she graduated in 1998. She then moved to New York and worked in the theater as well as obtaining her first roles on-screen, small parts in movies and guest-star roles on television series. Seeking more screen work, Banks moved to Los Angeles and the supporting roles soon came, and required that she change her name to avoid confusion with another actress named Elizabeth Mitchell who had already established herself. Her first signal success came in her delightful, brief performance in Spider-Man (2002), for which she is best known despite subsequent leading roles, as “Betty Brant”, the secretary of the cantankerous newspaper tycoon. (Banks has reprised the role in the Spider-Man series.)

Lasts Twitts

Twitted on 1 August 2010, 12:54 am
ElizabethBanks: It was! RT @davidwain: @elizabethbanks taking a photo of the marquee after La Cage aux Folles which was FABULOUS!
Twitted on 1 August 2010, 12:52 am
ElizabethBanks: Me and @davidwain did Broadway tonight! http://tweetphoto.com/36176101
Twitted on 30 July 2010, 10:06 am
ElizabethBanks: sweet - I couldn't find it - here's the original: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
Twitted on 30 July 2010, 9:56 am
ElizabethBanks: Missing Cat + Email Chain = Hilarity. If you read one thing today, read this. http://tinyurl.com/24ayx4l
Twitted on 29 July 2010, 10:25 pm
ElizabethBanks: @MintzPlasse where we drinking?!
Twitted on 29 July 2010, 6:25 pm
ElizabethBanks: @drbds29 1152 is good - better than me - but ain't gonna cut it. A reliable "Mole-r" told me he got HS 9292.
Twitted on 29 July 2010, 3:30 pm
ElizabethBanks: How dork-sad must I be that 1. I admitted to playing Word Mole and 2. I twittered about it. This is the sum of my life at this moment.
Twitted on 29 July 2010, 3:21 pm
ElizabethBanks: Holy crap, I'm slowly getting addicted to BB's Word Mole. It's app crack.
Twitted on 29 July 2010, 12:10 am
ElizabethBanks: Under the tree: low self esteem for all involved!
Twitted on 28 July 2010, 11:21 pm
ElizabethBanks: Just passed a Long Island Hooters that was lit up like Christmas.

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