Are you ready to get pitch-slapped again? Yes, the Barden Bella’s are back with Pitch Perfect 2, a sequel to the 2012 musical comedy that follows Fat Amy, Beca and the girls entering an international a cappella competition in order to clear their name after a humiliating performance for the President of the United States of America. Meet the stars that will take you on this adventure.
Anna Kendrick (Beca)
Anna Kendrick started her career at the age of 10 and at 12, became the second youngest ever Tony Award nominee for her role as “Dinah” in “High Society” on Broadway. She is best known for her roles in the Twilight Saga, End of Watch, and Up In The Air, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009. Her musical talent exploded with Pitch Perfect, giving her a unique chance to appear in three big screen musicals in one year: Into the Woods (2014), The Last Five Years (2014) and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015).
Rebel Wilson (Fat Patricia “Fat Amy”)
Australian stand-up comedian actress Rebel Wilson begun her career as Toula on the comedy series, Pizza. After successful TV appearances mostly in Australia, moving to the United States brought her to the role of Brynn in the movie Bridesmaids. Chances are you’ve seen her in a television comedy, Super Fun Night, which she starred and created or as a 2013 MTV Movie Awards presenter. After giving her voice to Raz in Ice Age: Continental Drift, she joined the voice cast for Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).
Hailee Steinfeld (Emily)
Hailee Steinfeld, an American actress and model, is playing as a new member of the Barden Bella’s, Emily. She is best known for her portrayal of Mattie Ross in True Grit (2010), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also played the role of Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (2013), Petra Arkanian in Ender’s Game (2013) and alongside Kevin Costner in 3 Days to Kill (2014).
Brittany Snow (Chloe)
Brittany Anne Snow began her career as Susan “Daisy” Lemay on the CBS series, Guiding Light, for which she won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress and was nominated for two other Young Artist Awards and a Soap Opera Digest Award. A straight-A student and a Maxim magazine beauty that is known for her roles in John Tucker Must Die (2006), Hairspray (2007), The Vicious Kind (2009), and, of course, Pitch Perfect (2012).
Skylar Astin (Jesse)
Skylar Astin is an American actor and singer known for playing Georg in the Tony Award–winning stage musical, Spring Awakening. His movie career really took off with the role of Rand Posin in Hamlet 2 (2008) and then later on in Taking Woodstock (2009), Pitch Perfect (2012), and 21 & Over (2013).
Adam DeVine (Bumper Allen)
Multi-talented guy Adam Patrick DeVine is a comedian, writer, producer, actor, and voice actor. With friends Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck, they formed the sketch-comedy group Mail Order Comedy and later on starred and co-created the Comedy Central series, Workaholics.
Anna Camp (Aubrey)
Anna Camp is best known for her starring role as Sarah Newlin in the second, sixth and seventh season of the HBO supernatural drama series, True Blood, and has had recurring roles in the fourth season of Mad Men (2010) and the third season of the CBS legal drama series The Good Wife (2011–2012).
Alexis Knapp (Stacie)
Alexis Knapp worked as a model before breaking into acting. She started with small roles in Couples Retreat (2009) and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010).
Hana Mae Lee (Lilly Okanakamura)
Lee, who is of Korean descent, began her career modeling and doing commercials from the age of 16. Later on, she started doing mostly TV shows and in 2009, began performing stand-up comedy. Her role at Pitch Perfect brought her a nomination for a “scene stealer” award at the Teen Choice Awards in 2013.
John Michael Higgins (John Smith)
John Michael Higgins has almost 30 years in the movies. His numerous television credits include recurring characters on Ally McBeal, Brother’s Keeper, Boston Legal and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. As for movies, he is known for his work on Yes Man (2008), Bad Teacher (2011) and The Ugly Truth (2009).
Elizabeth Banks (Gail Abernathy-McKadden)
Elizabeth Banks started her career back in 1998 in an independent film, Surrender Dorothy, but really got more exposure through Catch Me If You Can (2002) and the 2005 comedy movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Audiences began to take notice when Banks took the lead in Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), as Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s biopic of George W. Bush, W. (2008), in Man on a Ledge (2012), What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012) and People Like Us (2012). She also won the highly coveted role as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games (2012) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Besides being a comedy star in the movie, Elizabeth is also director of Pitch Perfect 2.
Flula Borg
Pitch Perfect 2 baddie is Flula Borg, a musician, DJ, host, actor, hype-man, and writer born and raised in Erlangen, Germany.