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ForElizabeth Banks,Oscarsfashion only gets better with time. In 2004, the actress and director wore a strappy red Badgley Mischka gown to the annualVanity FairOscars Party. Rather than picking out another new dress for the same event in 2020, Banks decided to ask her stylists, Wendy and Nicole Ferreira, to re-work her old gown to help her promote sustainability in fashion. “It’s gorgeous and it fits…so why not wear it again?!” Banks askedon Instagram....

01of 83High HonorsPaul Marotta/Getty ImagesElizabeth Banks took part in a parade as 2020 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 01of 83 High Honors Paul Marotta/Getty Images Elizabeth Banks took part in a parade as 2020 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 02of 83Fearless FlyersDoug Benc/AP/ShutterstockGlen Powell, Miles Teller and Monica Barbaro were all smiles with the U.S. Navy pilots that will be performing a flyover at the Super Bowl in Miami....

Elizabeth Banksand her husband Max Handelman met on their first day of college — and they’re still together 27 years later.Banks, 45, and Handelman, 46, attended the University of Pennsylvania, where Banks went on to graduate as magna cum laude. But her biggest accomplishment stemming from her college years is her thriving relationship with her husband.The two married in 2003 and have since welcomed two sons: Felix, 8, and Magnus, 7....

Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Many kids would jump at the chance to appear in a big-budget Hollywood movie likeCocaine Bear.Elizabeth Banks' sons are not those kids. When she was directing the bold new horror-comedy in Ireland in 2021, she enlisted Felix, 11, and Mangus, 10 — the children she shares with husband Max Handelman — to be extras in the background of one scene. “They did it for an hour,” says thePitch Perfectstar, who recalls they were more interested in the snacks from the craft service table....

WhenElizabeth Banksset out to make aCharlie’s Angelsmoviefor the modern era, she wanted a lead actress with a unique blend of talent, notoriety and individuality who could help carry the iconic property in a new direction. Banks, who directed, produced and wrote the film’s screenplay, in addition to playing an important supporting character, says she found all of that in starKristen Stewart. “She came to set super game, so excited,” she says....

Elizabeth Banksis a mom and no amount of criticism about how she became a mother can take that away from her.TheCharlie’s Angelsdirector, 45, recently opened up in a cover story forNet-a-Porter’sPorter Edit, about welcoming her two children, sons Felix and Magnus, via surrogate.Banks said she was unable to carry her sons due to infertility issues, which she referred to as her “broken belly.” But even though she had no control over her circumstances, the star said she feels like others judge her for using a surrogate to have children....

Elizabeth Banks; Ray Liotta.Photo: Allen Berezovsky/Getty; Vincent Sandoval/Getty Elizabeth BanksrecallsRay Liottahaving a blast makingCocaine Bear. The late actor makes one of his final big-screen appearances in the action-comedy about a drug-fueled wild animal that Banks directed. In acover story forVariety, Banks, 48, recalled working with Liotta, the movie’s villain, before hissudden death in May at 67. (According toVariety, he died one week after re-recording some audio for the movie’s post-production.)...

Photo: Shutterstock; Getty In the new movieCocaine Bear, the lateRay Liottaplays a ruthless drug kingpin trying to recover his stash. In real life, however, he was a big softie, the movie’s director,Elizabeth Bankstells PEOPLE. “Ray just came so joyfully into it the whole time,” Banks says of his work on the horror-comedy. Asked her favorite memory of the actor, Banks says it’s “one he wouldn’t even know that I saw.” (Liottadied in his sleepat age 67 last May while he was in the Dominican Republic filming a movie....

Photo: no7 Elizabeth Banksis embracing the aging process. The actress and director, who just saw hermost recent projectCocaine Bearhit theaters, turned 49 last month, and she’s embracing her age. “My philosophy really is age gracefully, whatever that means to you,” she tells PEOPLE of the aging process. For her, it means treating her skin with the right ingredients, including those found in No7’s stable of skin-loving products. Banks, who recently partnered with the U....

Photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Elizabeth Banksis open to creating a wider cinematic universe of animals on drugs. Ahead of the release of Banks' new movieCocaine Bear, the phrase ‘cocaine shark’ began trending on social media Wednesday after New Zealand police reported they recovered more than three tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, per theAssociated PressandThe Daily Beast. Social media users relating the story to thereal-life tale of the cocaine bearand the upcoming film starring the lateRay Liottaresulted in AMC Theaters conducting a poll on Twitter....

Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Elizabeth Banks' next directing project is quite the odd thriller. Banks has signed on to directCocaine Bear, a Universal Pictures movie inspired a wild real-life story involving a 175-pound bear who ate a duffel bag filled with 70 pounds of smuggled cocaine in Kentucky back in 1985. The actress previously voiced the character Wyldstyle in Lord and Miller’sLego Moviefranchise. This is Banks' third time directing after helmingPitch Perfect 2and the 2016Charlie’s Angelsreboot starring Kristen Stewart....

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Photo: Cate Brown Photography Elizabeth Beisel is “humbled and honored” to have made history as the first woman to swim from mainland Rhode Island to Block Island. The three-time Olympian, 29, completed the 10.4-mile swim Saturday in five hours and 19 minutes, according to a news release from Swim Across America. Beisel helped raise funds for the nonprofit for cancer research and patient programs in honor of her father, Charles “Ted” Lyons Beisel, who died in July after battling pancreatic cancer....