#Effie hunger games series#

Even within the fashion-obsessed Capitol she is considered a model of trendiness. Effie is the most intense fashionista you'll ever meet, and even in a large crowd, chances are you'll spot her elaborate, vibrant dress. Effie takes it upon herself to make sure that her Tributes, Katniss and Peeta, are groomed before presenting themselves to the Capitol, and the rest of Panem, on TV. In the 74th Hunger Games, she selects Peeta Mellark, a baker's son and 12-year old Primrose Everdeen, but Prim’s sister Katniss Everdeen quickly volunteers to take her place. Effie randomly draws the names of District 12's participants for the Games, selecting one boy and one girl that will be sent to the Capitol to prepare for the Arena. Profession… Hunger Games escort for District 12. However right before each annual Hunger Games, the state-sponsored blood sport where 24 boys and girls fight to the death with arrows, swords, and spears, Effie travels to District 12, the poor mining section of Panem. Living… in the Capitol for most of the year. Unlike the 12 Districts that live in squalor and poverty under its tyrannical rule, the Capitol is a center of high culture, fashion, and affectation. Panem is the post-apocalyptic nation that stands in the vestiges of North America. 2012, both by gestational surrogacy.Grew Up… in the luxury, wealth, and splendor of Panem's Capitol.

They have two sons, Felix, who was born in March 2011, and Magnus, born in Nov. After an eleven-year courtship, Banks married Max Handelman, a sports writer and producer, in 2003. She also won the coveted role as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games (2012) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Elizabeth has also appeared in such films as Our Idiot Brother (2011), Man on a Ledge (2012), What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012), People Like Us (2012), and Pitch Perfect (2012).

#Effie hunger games series#

Originally scheduled to appear in only four episodes, she was brought back as a recurring character for two more seasons, and earned Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for two consecutive years. In 2010 she was cast as Alec Baldwin's love interest in season four of 30 Rock (2006). Kim Briggs, the love interest of Zach Braff's J.D. In television, Banks was a recurring guest star on Scrubs (2001) as Dr. The winsome, beautiful Banks projected an exceptionally charming screen presence that drew comparisons to Audrey Hepburn, and Hollywood eventually began to take notice, Banks being cast in the lead in such films as Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) and in Oliver Stone's biopic of George W. In 2003 she won the Exciting New Face Award at the Young Hollywood Awards. She followed up this performance with small roles in other movies: Swept Away (2002), Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002), Seabiscuit (2003) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). Her breakthrough role was as Betty Brant, the secretary of the cantankerous newspaper tycoon in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002). She also had to change her last name, to Banks, in order to avoid confusion with actress Elizabeth Mitchell. Seeking more screen work, she moved to Los Angeles and was soon cast in supporting roles. She then moved to New York and worked in the theater, and began getting small roles in films and on television. 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, graduating in 1996. Elizabeth describes herself as having been seen as a 'goody two-shoes' in her youth who was nominated for the local Harvest Queen. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. 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.