Tyra Banks - American media personality, actress, talkshow host, occasional singer, former model and businesswoman.

Tyra Banks was born in Inglewood, California, USA as the daughter of Carolyn, a fashion Tyra Banks manager and NASA photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant. Tyra Bank is an American media personality, actress, talkshow host, occasional singer, former model and businesswoman. Tyra Lynne Banks was born on December 4, 1973. She first became famous as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo and New York, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. Also Tyra Banks is the creator and host of the very popular UPN/The CW reality television show America’s Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.
Tyra Banks parents divorced when she was a kid of 6 years old. Tyra Banks was a student of John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. Later she joined top colleges such as USC and UCLA for television producing. She started doing modeling while in school itself. Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1997, she received the VH1 award for Supermodel of the Year. That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria’s Secret catalog. Since May 2005 she left modeling to concentrate on her more profitable television career. She walked the runway for the final time at the 2005 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Banks’s television carrier started with the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which she played lead character Will Smith’s old friend Jackie Ames. She made seven appearances in the series. Other TV credits include Felicity, MADtv, Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘n Out (in which she was featured as a special guest host and team captain) and The Price Is Right (guest-starring as a “Barker’s Beauty”). She also appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in an episode entitled “Chinatown.” In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show.

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Tyra Banks’s first big screen role came in 1994 when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning. She went on to co-star with Lindsay Lohan in the Disney movie Life-Size, playing a doll named Eve who comes to life and has to learn how to live in the real world. Other notable roles include Love Stinks (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000) and Halloween: Resurrection (2002).
Tyra Banks has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson’s “Black or White”, Tina Turner’s “Love Thing”, Mobb Deep’s “Trife Life” and George Michael’s “Too Funky” (with fellow supermodel Linda Evangelista). In 2004, she recorded her first single, “Shake Ya Body,” which had a music video featuring the final six contestants on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 2.

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