Tyra Banks

Described as

American television personality, producer, and former model

Other names

Tyra Lynne Banks, BanX

Born

December 4, 1973 · 4 references

Born in

Inglewood

Name at birth

Tyra Lynne Banks

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

film actor; model · 1 reference; television presenter; entrepreneur; actor · 2 references; television actor; businessperson; singer · 1 reference

Education

Immaculate Heart Middle & High School (–1991); Harvard Business School; Walsh University; The Groundlings; John Burroughs Middle School; Loyola Marymount University

Known for

Victoria's Secret Angels; America's Next Top Model (2003–2015); The Tyra Banks Show (2005–2010); America's Got Talent (2017–2018); Dancing with the Stars (2020–)

Awards

Teen Choice Awards; Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host (2009)

Nickname

TyTy; BanX · 1 reference

Height

1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) · 2 references

Website

http://tyra.com/

Wikipedias with a page

81

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Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American model, television personality, producer, writer, actress, and businesswoman. She began her career as a model at the age of 15 and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on which she appeared three times. Banks was one of only a few Black models to achieve supermodel status. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the world's top-earning models.
Banks began acting on television in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993) and made her film debut in the drama Higher Learning (1995). In 2000, she had major film roles, such as Eve in Disney Channel's Life-Size and Zoe in the box-office hit Coyote Ugly. Banks had small roles in the romantic sports film Love & Basketball (2000), the horror film Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and in the television series Gossip Girl (2009) and Glee (2013).
In 2003, Banks created the reality series America's Next Top Model, which she executive produced and presented for the first twenty-two seasons, until the series' cancellation in October 2015. She remained executive producer for the revival of the series in 2016 and enlisted Rita Ora as host for the twenty-third cycle before reassuming the duties herself for the twenty-fourth cycle. Banks was the co-creator of True Beauty (2009–2010), and had her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show (2005–2010), which aired on The CW and won two Daytime Emmy awards for Outstanding Talk Show Informative. In 2015, she co-hosted the talk show FABLife for two months. In 2017 and 2018, Banks was the host of America's Got Talent for its 12th and 13th seasons. In 2020, she was the host of Dancing with the Stars for its 29th season, also serving as an executive producer.
In 2010, Banks published a young adult novel, Modelland, based on her life as a model, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011. She also has her own production company, Bankable Productions, which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model, and the 2008 film The Clique. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly been ranked among the world's most influential people by Time. She is also one of only seventeen models to be ranked as a Legendary Supermodel by Models.com.

Born, in its opening lines

December 4, 1973

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