11.19.2009

You may not know her name but if you’ve been to the movies in the last few years, you probably know her face.

Elizabeth Banks, who recently starred in the made-in-Toronto thriller Slither, popped up at the end of last season’s Scrubs and has a recurring role in the Spider-Man movies as J. Jonah Jameson’s secretary, Betty Brant.

She’s currently starring in Invincible as Mark Wahlberg’s love interest.

“I play a real life character – Janet, who’s Vince Papale’s wife,” she explains. “The woman of his dreams, the mother of his children, is this woman Janet, and she’s a total spitfire and she really keeps him on his toes.”

Born Elizabeth Mitchell 32 years ago in a small town in Massachusetts (she changed her surname to avoid confusion with another actress), Banks graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and then studied at the prestigious American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
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Not long after moving to Los Angeles, she started getting small roles opposite some big talents – Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can, Madonna in Swept Away and Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Not to mention Jeff Bridges and a really fast horse in Seabiscuit.

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