Who is Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell?

Who is Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell? The entertainment and acting world knows her professionally as Elizabeth Banks she is an American actress. Banks had her film debut in the low-budget independent filmSurrender Dorothy. Since then, she has been well-known for her roles in Definitely, Maybe, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, W., Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, The Uninvited and theSpider-Man franchise. Banks has also portrayed roles as guest star in television shows through her career, including the role of Dr. Kim Briggs, Zach Braff's love interest in the television sitcomScrubs, and her role as Avery Jessup, Jack Donaghy's wife in 30 Rock.

  Early life and education

Banks was born February 10, 1974 , in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann and Mark Mitchell.[2] Her father was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank.[3] As a young child, she was a contestant on the

Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. In 1998, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater and earned an MFA.

Career

Elizabeth Mitchell

Banks changed her name to avoid confusion with actress Elizabeth Mitchell.[4] She debuted in the independent film Surrender Dorothy, as Elizabeth Casey, and quickly gained widespread exposure through the comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

In August 2005, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Banks starred in William Inge's Bus Stopas Cherie, the sexy, blond, aspiring nightclub singer.[5] Jeffrey Borak wrote that Banks' portrayal was acted "with poise, clarity and a shrewd feel for Cherie's complexities. Her performance is all of a piece and in harmony, stylistically, with the performances around her...."[6] In 2005, she appeared on the show Stella, and in May 2006, she had a role in the season five finale of theNBC comedy Scrubs as Dr. Kim Briggs, the love interest of J.D. (Zach Braff). The character has appeared throughout seasons six, seven and eight as a recurring guest star.

In 2006, Banks appeared in the American football drama film Invincible, in which she played Mark Wahlberg's love interest. The film is based on the true story of bartender Vince Papale. Later, she and co-star Walhberg were

nominated for the "Best Kiss" award at the MTV Movie Award. Also that year, she landed the starring role in the comedy-horror Slither. Despite mildly positive reviews from critics, it grossed only $12 million worldwide, less than half the budget of the film.

In 2007, she played the female lead in the comedy Meet Bill, alongside Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba. Also that year, Banks had a small role in the

Christmas comedy film Fred Claus, co-starring Vince Vaughnand Paul Giamatti. In 2008, she played a love interest in the comedy Definitely, Maybe, alongside Isla Fisher and Ryan Reynolds, starred with Seth Rogen as the eponymous female lead in the Kevin Smithcomedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and played United States First Lady Laura Bush in W, Oliver Stone'sbiopic of George W. Bush.[7]

In 2009, Banks appeared in the thriller The Uninvited, a remake of the Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters.[8] The film was about an intrusive stepmother who makes life miserable for the teen daughters of her new husband. Banks based her character, Rachel, on Rebecca De Mornay's character in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle".[9] "It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways," says Banks of her role, "So that when you go back through the movie you can see that".[9]

Banks is a frequent co-star of actor Paul Rudd, the two having appeared in four films together to date (Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Role Models).[10] "There was a David O. Russell movie that I really wanted to make with Vince Vaughn that ended up falling apart",[9] said Banks, referring to the film H-Man Cometh, in a January 2009 interview.

On December 8, 2009, it was announced that Banks would appear in at least four episodes of the Emmy-winning sitcom 30 Rock as a love interest for Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin).[11] She went on to appear in nine episodes of the fourth season. Banks is set to star alongside Leslie Mann in What Was I Thinking?, based upon the book by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman.[12]

Personal life

On July 5, 2003, Banks married sportswriter and producer Max Handelman,[13] who had been her boyfriend since she met him on her first day at college, September 6, 1992.[14] She converted to Judaism upon marrying him.[15][16] She and her husband welcomed their first child, a boy named Felix via gestational host in March 2011.[17]

 

 

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Surrender Dorothy	Vicki	Credited as "Elizabeth Casey"
2000	Shaft	Trey's friend	Credited as "Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell"
2001	Wet Hot American Summer	Lindsay
2001	Ordinary Sinner	Rachel
2002	Spider-Man	Betty Brant
2002	Swept Away	Debi
2002	Catch Me If You Can	Lucy Forrest
2002	Stella Shorts 1998-2002	Woman at yoga class	Short films; direct-to-DVD release
2003	The Trade	Sioux Sever
2003	Seabiscuit	Marcela Howard	Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2004	Spider-Man 2	Betty Brant
2005	Heights	Isabel
2005	Sexual Life	Sarah
2005	The Sisters	Nancy Pecket
2005	The Baxter	Caroline Swann
2005	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Beth
2005	Daltry Calhoun	May
2006	Slither	Starla Grant
2006	Invincible	Janet Cantrell	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (with Mark Wahlberg)
2007	Spider-Man 3	Betty Brant
2007	Meet Bill	Jess
2007	Fred Claus	Charlene
2008	Definitely, Maybe	Emily Jones
2008	Meet Dave	Gina Morrison
2008	Lovely, Still	Alex
2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Miriam "Miri" Linky
2008	W.	Laura Bush	Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
2008	Role Models	Beth Jones
2009	Big Breaks	Starlet	Short
2009	The Uninvited	Rachel Summers
2009	Surrogates		Executive Producer
2010	The Details	Nealy Lang
2010	The Next Three Days	Lara
2011	Movie 43		Filming
2011	My Idiot Brother	Miranda	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Third Watch	Elaine Elchisak	"Patterns" (season 1, episode 3) Credited as "Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell"
2000	Sex and the City	Catherine	"Politically Erect" (season 3, episode 2)
2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jaina Tobias Jansen	"Sacrifice" (season 3, episode 7)
2002	Without a Trace	Clarissa	"Snatch Back" (season 1, episode 7)
2005	Stella	Tamara	"Meeting Girls" (season 1, episode 6)
2006–2007, 2009	Scrubs	Dr. Kim Briggs	Recurring role
2007–2008	Wainy Days	Shelly	"Shelly" (season 1, episode 1) "The Date" (season 1, episode 2) "Shelly 2" (season 3, episode 6)
2007–2008	American Dad!	Becky Arangino Lisa Silver	"The Vacation Goo" (season 3, episode 1) "1600 Candles" (season 4, episode 1) "Escape from Pearl Bailey" (season 4, episode 5)
2008	Comanche Moon	Maggie Tilton	TV mini-series
2009	Modern Family	Sal	"Great Expectations" (season 1, episode 8)
2010	30 Rock	Avery Jessup	"Anna Howard Shaw Day" (season 4, episode 13) "Future Husband" (season 4, episode 14) "Don Geiss, America and Hope" (season 4, episode 15) "Floyd" (season 4, episode 16) "Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter" (season 4, episode 17) "Khonani" (season 4, episode 18) "The Moms" (season 4, episode 20) "Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land" (season 4, episode 21) "I Do Do" (season 4, episode 22) "When It Rains, It Pours" (season 5, episode 2)

 

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Who is Candice Swanepoel ?

Who is Candice Swanepoel? The Entertainment and Modeling world knows her as a South African model best known for her work with Victoria's Secret.

Early Life & Career

Candice Swanepoel was born October 20, 1988  in Mooi River, Natal Province, and was spotted by a model scout in a Durban flea market at age 15.^[1] By age 16, Swanepoel was earning 5,000 Euros or R40,000 for a day's work.^[1] Swanepoel's resume includes covers for Vogue (Greece & Italia), ELLE (Germany), and Ocean Drive (U.S.)^[2] and advertisements for Nike, Diesel, Guess?, and Versus Eyewear.^[2] Swanepoel has walked the runway for Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce and Gabbana, Shiatzy Chen, Sass and Bide, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Fürstenberg and numerous other designers,^[2] as well as for Victoria's Secret in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. In addition to appearing in the lingerie brand's commercials, she was a featured model in the 2010 "SWIM" catalog,^[3] along with Lindsay Ellingson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Erin Heatherton. In 2010, Swanepoel became a Victoria's Secret Angel. Swanepoel modeled for the Kardashians' 2010 swimwear line. On August 12, 2010 Swanepoel officially opened the first Victoria's Secret retail store in Canada, at West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton.^[4] Candice Swanepoel was voted #61 in FHM Magazine's annual 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll^[5] and has been on the cover of Vogue Italia.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Swanepoel has dated model Hermann Nicoli since 2006.^[6]

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Who is Elizabeth Herring?

Who is Elizabeth Herring?  The political world knows her as Elizabeth Warren, she is an American attorney and law professor. She serves as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She is also the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. In the wake of the 2008-2011 financial crisis, she became the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, created to investigate the U.S. banking bailout (formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program). She has long advocated for the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau^[3][4], which was established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.
On April 12, 2010, CNN reported that Warren's was among additional names being considered as Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.^[5][6] On May 24, 2010, Time Magazine called Warren, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro the "New Sheriffs of Wall Street" in a cover story.^[7] On September 17, 2010, she was named a special adviser by President Obama to oversee the development of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Her position will include the responsibility of recommending a director for this new entity, although it is unclear whether Warren herself will be considered for the position.^[8]

Personal life

Elizabeth Warren was born June 22, 1949 Elizabeth Herring, and raised in Oklahoma where she was a state champion debater at age 16. She married Jim Warren at age 19, and transferred from George Washington University to the University of Houston, where she graduated with a B.S. in 1970.^[9] In 1976 she received her J.D. from Rutgers Law—Newark, where she served as an Editor to the Rutgers Law Review and was one of two female summer associates at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Wall Street office.^[10] After law school, Warren worked from home, writing wills and doing real estate closings for walk in clients.^[11] She divorced Warren in 1978, and later married Bruce Mann.
She joined Harvard Law School in 1992 as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Commercial Law. Prior to Harvard, she was the William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law at University of Pennsylvania School of Law and also taught at the University of Texas School of Law, University of Houston Law Center, University of Michigan and Rutgers Law School.
From 2005-2008, Warren and her law students wrote a blog called Warren Reports, part of Josh Marshall's TPMCafe.
Warren appeared in the documentary film Maxed Out in 2006, has appeared several times on Dr. Phil to talk about money and families, has been a guest on The Daily Show,^[12] is interviewed frequently on cable news networks,^[13] appears in Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, has appeared on the Charlie Rose talk show^[14], and has appeared on the Real Time With Bill Maher talk show^[15].
Warren is a member of the FDIC's Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Executive Council of the National Bankruptcy Conference. She is the former Vice-President of the American Law Institute and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as the Chief Adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission.
Warren is married to Bruce Mann, a legal historian and law professor also at Harvard Law School. She has a daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, with whom she has coauthored two books and several articles, and a son, Alexander Warren. She is an ex-Sunday School teacher and cites Methodist John Wesley as an inspiration.^[3]

Popular works

In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles and six academic books, Warren has written several best-selling books, including All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan (ISBN 978-0-7432-6988-9), coauthored with her daughter, Amelia Tyagi.
Warren is also the co-author (with Tyagi) of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (Basic, 2003) (ISBN 978-0-465-09090-7). Warren and Tyagi point out that a fully employed worker today earns less inflation-adjusted income than a fully employed worker did 30 years ago. To increase their income, families have sent a second parent into the workforce. Although families spend less today on clothing, appliances, and other consumption, the costs of core expenses like mortgages, health care, transportation, child care, and taxes have increased dramatically. The result is that, even with two income earners, families no longer save and have incurred greater and greater debt.
In an article in the New York Times, Jeff Madrick said of Warren's book:

“

The upshot is that two-income families often have even less income left over today than did an equivalent single-income family 30 years ago, even when they make almost twice as much. And they go deeper in debt. The authors find that it is not the free-spending young or the incapacitated elderly who are declaring bankruptcy so much as families with children. ... their main thesis is undeniable. Typical families often cannot afford the high-quality education, health care and neighborhoods required to be middle class today. More clearly than anyone else, I think, Ms. Warren and Ms. Tyagi have shown how little attention the nation and our government have paid to the way Americans really live.[16]

”

In an article in Time magazine by Maryanna Murray Buechner, "Parent Trap" (subtitled "Want to go bust? Have a kid. Educate same. Why the middle class never had it so bad"), Buechner said of Warren's book:

“

For families looking for ways to cope, Warren and Tyagi mainly offer palliatives: Buy a cheaper house. Squirrel away a six-month cash cushion. Yeah, right. But they also know that there are no easy solutions. Readers who are already committed to a house and parenthood will find little to mitigate the deflating sense that they have nowhere to go but down.[17]

”

In 2005, Dr. David Himmelstein and Warren published a study on bankruptcy and medical bills,^[18] which claimed that half of all families filing for bankruptcy did so in the aftermath of a serious medical problem. The finding was particularly noteworthy because 75% of those who fit that description had medical insurance.^[19] This study was widely cited in academic studies and policy debates, though some have questioned the study's methods and offered alternative interpretations of the data.^[20] In one critical article funded by an insurance industry group, the authors simply multiplied two numbers found in the Himmelstein and Warren manuscript, and reported that only 17% of bankruptcies resulted from medical bills. ^[21] In a rejoinder, Himmelstein and Warren explained the critics' multiple errors. ^[22]

TARP oversight

On November 14, 2008, Ms. Warren was appointed by United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to chair the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.^[23] The Panel releases monthly oversight reports that evaluate the government bailout and related programs.^[24]
The Panel's monthly reports under Warren's leadership covered foreclosure mitigation, consumer and small business lending, commercial real estate, AIG, bank stress tests, the impact of TARP on the financial markets, government guarantees, the automotive industry, and many other topics. The Panel has also released special reports on financial regulatory reform and farm loans. For each report, Warren released a video on the Congressional Oversight Panel's website explaining key findings. All reports and videos are available at cop.senate.gov.
In her role as Chair of the Panel, Warren testified many times before House and Senate committees on financial issues.^[25]
In an interview at Newsweek, December 7, 2009 entitled "Reining in, and Reigning Over, Wall Street" Elizabeth Warren was asked: "Congress is trying to reform financial regulation, and it can get a little abstract. Where should people focus?"
She responded:

To restore some basic sanity to the financial system, we need two central changes: fix broken consumer-credit markets and end guarantees for the big players that threaten our entire economic system. If we get those two key parts right, we can still dial the rest of the regulation up and down as needed. But if we don't get those two right, I think the game is over. I hate to sound alarmist, but that's how I feel about this.

Public Service After TARP

While not officially on the short list of potential nominees to replace retiring US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens,^[26] members of the media speculated on her potential service on the court. In an interview by Tavis Smiley, Warren was asked about serving on the Court and also about heading a potential Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.^[27] She was complimented by Tavis on her diplomatic answers and she asserted that she has not been asked to serve in either of those capacities. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Warren is the top pick of Democratic leaders in Congress to head the new consumer agency.^[28] There have also been calls for her to challenge Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts in the 2012 election.^[29]

Recognition

Warren was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009 and 2010.^[30][31]
In December 2009, the Boston Globe named Warren the Bostonian of the Year.^[32]
The National Law Journal has repeatedly named Professor Warren as one of the fifty most influential female lawyers,^[33] and she has been recognized for her work by SmartMoney magazine, Money magazine, and Law Dragon.^{[citation needed]}
In 2009, the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts honored her with the Leila J. Robinson Award.
Warren has been recognized for her dynamic teaching style. In 2009, Warren became the first professor in Harvard's history to win the law school's teaching award twice. The Sacks-Freund Teaching Award was voted on by the graduating class in honor of "her teaching ability, openness to student concerns, and contributions to student life at Harvard." Warren also has won awards from her students at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and the University of Houston Law Center.
On August 13, 2010 a rap video by the Main Street Brigade was put on YouTube in an effort to encourage President Obama to nominate Elizabeth Warren as the first director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.^[34]

Publications

Articles

• 'Bankruptcy Policy' (1987) 54(3) The University of Chicago Law Review 775-814
• 'The Untenable Case for Repeal of Chapter 11' (1992) 102(2) The Yale Law Journal 437-479 73
• 'Bankruptcy Policymaking in an Imperfect World (1993) 92(2) Michigan Law Review 336-387
• 'The Bankruptcy Crisis' (1997–1998) 73 Indiana Law Journal 1079
• 'Principled Approach to Consumer Bankruptcy' (1997) 71 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 483
• 'Financial Characteristics of Businesses in Bankruptcy' (1999) Am. Bankr. L.J. 499 (with JL Westbrook)
• 'Illness and Injury as Contributors to Bankruptcy' (2005) SSRN (with DU Himmelstein, D Thorne and SJ Woolhandler)
• 'The Success of Chapter 11: A Challenge to the Critics' (2009) 107 Michigan Law Review 603 (with JL Westbrook)
• 'Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study,' (2008) American Journal of Medicine (with DU Himmelstein, D Thorne and SJ Woolhandler)

Books

• Warren, Elizabeth; Westbrook, Jay Lawrence (2008). The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (6th ed.). Aspen Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7355-7626-1.
• Warren, Elizabeth (2008). Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses (Essentials). Aspen Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7355-7654-4.
• Lopucki, Lynn; Warren, Elizabeth (2008). Chapter 11: Secured Credit: A Systems Approach. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. ISBN 978-735576490.
• Warren, Elizabeth (2007). "The Vanishing Middle Class". In Edwards, John. Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream. The New Press. ISBN 978-1-59558-176-1.
• Lopucki, Lynn; Warren, Elizabeth; Keating, Daniel; Mann, Ronald; Goldenberg, Norman (2006). Casenote Legal Briefs: Commercial Law. Aspen Publishers. ISBN 978-0735558274.
• Warren, Elizabeth; Tyagi, Amelia Warren (2006). All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-6988-9.
• Warren, Elizabeth; Tyagi, Amelia Warren (2004). The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-09090-7.
• Sullivan, Teresa A.; Warren, Elizabeth; Westbrook, Jay (2001). The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09171-7.
• Sullivan, Teresa A.; Warren, Elizabeth; Westbrook, Jay (1999). As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America. Beard Books. ISBN 978-1-893122-15-4.

 

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