Tyra Banks-model, talk show host and actress

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Name: Tyra Banks
Birthday: December 4, 1973 (1973-12-04)
Inglewood, California, United States
Occupation: model, talk show host and actress
Salary $23 million (2008)
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American model, talk show host, actress, singer and businessperson. She first became famous as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo and New York, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. Banks is the creator and host of the reality television show America’s Next Top Model and is co-creater of True Beauty. She also hosts her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.

Banks began modeling in the 11th grade.[9] She later went to Paris, France to do some runway modeling. Within Banks’ first week in Paris, designers were so entranced by her presence on the runway that she was booked for an unprecedented twenty-five shows – a record in the business for a newcomer. She has done extensive print and/or runway work for fashion/advertising giants, such as Anna Sui, Coors Light, CoverGirl, Badgley Mischka, Bill Blass, Cynthia Rowley, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Gemma Kahng, H&M, Isaac Mizrahi, Maria Snyder, McDonald’s, Aislinn Dubois Modeling Agency, Michael Kors, Milk, Nicole Miller, Nike, Inc., Oscar de la Renta, Pepsi, Perry Ellis, Randy Kemper, Richard Tyler, Rifat Ozbek, Swatch, Todd Oldham, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria’s Secret and Yves Saint Laurent. She has appeared on the covers of high-fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Elle.

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. Banks was featured in a Playboy May 1997 pictorial on supermodels with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Driver, Milla Jovovich, Eva Herzigová, Iman, Elle Macpherson, Kate Moss, Shana Phipps, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour and Amber Smith. Claudia Schiffer was on the cover.

Currently, Banks can be seen on television as the hostess, judge and executive producer of The CW Television Network show America’s Next Top Model. In addition, she hosts The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005. The show features stories about everyday people mixed in with celebrity interviews, much like the early format of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Under the slogan “Every woman has a story…and it happened to Tyra too,” Banks promotes her show using emotional flashbacks to her own childhood and adolescence. Many of the episodes deal with issues facing women today. Banks and other experts give women advice on fashion, relationships and more. The first two seasons of the show were recorded in Banks’ hometown of Los Angeles, but beginning with the fall 2007 season, the show moved to New York City. In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show.

In late-January 2008, Banks got the go-ahead from The CW Television Network to start work on a new reality television series based on fashion magazines called Stylista. The show premiered on October 22, 2008.

Banks’ 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 film 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 Film
Year Title Role Notes
1995 Higher Learning Deja
1999 Love Stinks Holly Garnett
2000 Love & Basketball Kyra Kessler
Life-Size Eve Doll TV movie
Coyote Ugly Zoë
2002 Halloween: Resurrection Nora Winston
Eight Crazy Nights Victoria’s Secret Gown Voice
2007 Mr. Woodcock Herself Cameo
2008 Tropic Thunder Herself Cameo
2009 Hannah Montana: The Movie[17] Woman in Women’s Shoe Department Guest appearance

Tyra Banks Television
Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Jackie Ames TV series (credited as “Tyra”)
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Part 1
All Guts, No Glory
Father of the Year
Blood Is Thicker Than Mud
Fresh Prince After Dark
Take My Cousin… Please
You’ve Got to Be a Football Hero
Hubris
Outrage
Just Shoot Me

1999 Felicity Jane Scott TV series
A Good Egg
Kissing Mr. Covington
One Ball, Two Strikes

2000 MADtv Katisha Latisha Parisha Farisha Johnson TV series
Episode #5.25
Episode #5.17

2003-Present America’s Next Top Model Host Reality TV series created, judged and hosted by Banks
2004 American Dreams Carolyn Gill TV series
Chasing the Past

All of Us Roni TV series
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2005-Present The Tyra Banks Show Host Talk show

Tyra Banks References
^ Miller, Matthew (2008-06-11), The Celebrity 100: #68 Tyra Banks, Forbes.com, 2008
^ Tyra Banks Height – how tall
^ a b Jason Clark (2008). “Tyra Banks:Biography on MSN”. MSN. Retrieved on 2008-07-18.
^ ABC News: Tyra Banks Experiences Obesity Through Fat Suit
^ Tyra Banks On It – Forbes.com
^ Tyra Banks Biography (1973-)
^ Tyra Banks: America’s Next Top Mogul
^ “Banksable” by Lynn Hirschberg, New York Times, June 1, 2008
^ Tyra Banks Profile in the FMD-database. Accessed 2008-06-11.
^ Tyra Banks and Books
^ a b Christian, Margena A.. “Tyra Banks: creator of TV’s ‘America’s next top model’ tells why singing is her next move”. Jet. March 1, 2004. Retrieved February 23, 2007.
^ NewsChannel 5.com – Nashville, Tennessee – ‘Hannah Montana’ Film Scenes Shot In Cool Springs Mall

Tyra Banks gossip:

I can’t bring myself to watch Tyra Banks’ talk show — the clips featured on “The Soup” feed me all I need — so I have to say that I’ve been missing my weekly serving of the campy queen. I’m hungry for more catfights, inane comments and ridiculous challenges. Thankfully there is a new place to nourish my soul with soulless models — “America’s Next Top Model Obsessed” on Oxygen!

Yes, the network is launching a weekly marathon — staring Sunday — of every cycle of the best reality show that aims to discover the most talented models in America, yet seems mostly incapable of finding anyone who can shine brighter than Miss Banks.

Not only will we get multiple marathons, but new interviews with old contestants will be peppered throughout. You know what this show needs? To be Sheena-fied! My girl totally needs to be hosting this shizz.