Biography of Elizabeth Banks
Though her off-screen vocabulary is at times sprinkled with Valley-speak, her performances demonstrate solid acting skill and a keen intelligence. 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. 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. 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.
Elizabeth Banks trivia
- Reads Spanish books because she misses hearing the language back home in Colombia.
- Is the goddaughter of Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT)
- Moved to New York after her parents were expelled from their native Poland for her father’s involvement with Amnesty International and the then subversive Solidarity movement.
- Posed for renowned Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee for Kee’s 2006 charity photo-book “Super Stars”, dedicated to the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, which consists of photographs of 300 Asian celebrities by Kee.
- Has her mother’s, father’s and grandmother’s names tattooed onto her body.
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