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Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. Banks is the creator and host of the 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 was born in Inglewood, California. She is the daughter of Carolyn (née London; now London-Johnson), a medical photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant. She has a brother, Devin, who is five years older. In 1980, when Banks was 6 years old, her parents divorced. Banks attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She was accepted by USC and UCLA but declined to attend, instead pursuing a career in modeling.

Banks began modeling in the 11th grade. She later went to Paris, France to do some runway modeling. She has done extensive print and/or runway work for fashion/advertising giants, such as Anna Sui, CoverGirl, Bill Blass, Chanel, Victoria's Secret, and Yves Saint Laurent.[citation needed] She has appeared on the covers of high-fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Elle.[citation needed]

Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[11] In 1997, she received the VH1 award for Supermodel of the Year.[citation needed] That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog.[12]

In 1998, Banks authored a book entitled Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out.[13]

In 2010, Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models.[14]

In 2011, Banks debut fiction book, Modelland, was published.[15]
[edit] Move into television and film

Banks's television career began on 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.[citation needed] Other TV credits include Felicity, All That, 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").[citation needed] She also appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in an episode entitled "Chinatown."

Tyra Banks started her own production company, Bankable Productions (at first called "Ty Ty Baby Productions"; she did not rename it till the second cycle of America's Next Top Model), which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model, and the 2008 movie The Clique.

Banks is the hostess, judge and executive producer of The CW Television Network show America's Next Top Model. In addition, she hosted The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005, and ran until May 28, 2010.[citation needed]

In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Banks's first big screen role came in 1994, when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning.[16] She then co-starred 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). She and Miley Cyrus poke fun at the excesses of the Hollywood lifestyle with a battle over a pair of shoes in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).

Banks appeared in the fourth episode of the third season of Gossip Girl[17] playing Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-life actress who works with Serena.
[edit] Music

Banks has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson's "Black or White", Tina Turner's "Love Thing", Mobb Deep's "Trife Life", George Michael's "Too Funky" (with fellow supermodel Linda Evangelista) and Lionel Richie's "Don't Wanna Lose You". 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. The video was world-premiered on UPN, but the single turned out to be a failure.[18]

Banks released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.," which was performed on NBA TV.[citation needed] She also has a single on the soundtrack to Disney Channel's Original Movie Life-Size called "Be A Star."[citation needed]
[edit] Books

Banks announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, called Modelland,[19] loosely based on her own modelling experience.[20] Scheduled to be released in September 2011,[dated info] it is the first of a planned three-part series.[21] On an interview with Good Morning America, Banks stated that Modelland is the story of four girls who are accepted into an "exclusive" modelling school in the world of Modelland.[22]
[edit] Further education

In 2011, Banks enrolled in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at the Harvard Business School.[23]
[edit] Philanthropy

In 1999, Tyra Banks established the TZONE program, which aimed at leadership and life skills development.[24][25] In 2005, TZONE transformed from a camp into a public charity, the Tyra Banks TZONE Foundation.[24]
[edit] Filmography
Film
Year Film 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 Herself in Women's Shoe Department Cameo[26]
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

1999 Felicity Jane Scott TV series

A Good Egg
Kissing Mr. Covington
One Ball, Two Strikes

Just Shoot Me! Herself TV series

Nina Sees Red: Part 1
Nina Sees Red: Part 2

2000 MADtv Katisha Latisha Parisha Farisha Johnson TV series

Episode #5.17
Episode #5.25

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?

2005–2010 The Tyra Banks Show Host Talk show
2009 Gossip Girl Ursula Nyquist TV series,season 3

Dan de Fleurette


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	Videos: Tyra Banks Shake Ya Body Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. Banks is the creator and host of the 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 was born in Inglewood, California. She is the daughter of Carolyn (née London; now London-Johnson), a medical photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant. She has a brother, Devin, who is five years older. In 1980, when Banks was 6 years old, her parents divorced. Banks attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She was accepted by USC and UCLA but declined to attend, instead pursuing a career in modeling. Banks began modeling in the 11th grade. She later went to Paris, France to do some runway modeling. She has done extensive print and/or runway work for fashion/advertising giants, such as Anna Sui, CoverGirl, Bill Blass, Chanel, Victoria's Secret, and Yves Saint Laurent.[citation needed] She has appeared on the covers of high-fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Elle.[citation needed] Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[11] In 1997, she received the VH1 award for Supermodel of the Year.[citation needed] That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog.[12] In 1998, Banks authored a book entitled Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out.[13] In 2010, Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models.[14] In 2011, Banks debut fiction book, Modelland, was published.[15] [edit] Move into television and film Banks's television career began on 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.[citation needed] Other TV credits include Felicity, All That, 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").[citation needed] She also appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in an episode entitled "Chinatown." Tyra Banks started her own production company, Bankable Productions (at first called "Ty Ty Baby Productions"; she did not rename it till the second cycle of America's Next Top Model), which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model, and the 2008 movie The Clique. Banks is the hostess, judge and executive producer of The CW Television Network show America's Next Top Model. In addition, she hosted The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005, and ran until May 28, 2010.[citation needed] In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] Banks's first big screen role came in 1994, when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning.[16] She then co-starred 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). She and Miley Cyrus poke fun at the excesses of the Hollywood lifestyle with a battle over a pair of shoes in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). Banks appeared in the fourth episode of the third season of Gossip Girl[17] playing Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-life actress who works with Serena. [edit] Music Banks has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson's "Black or White", Tina Turner's "Love Thing", Mobb Deep's "Trife Life", George Michael's "Too Funky" (with fellow supermodel Linda Evangelista) and Lionel Richie's "Don't Wanna Lose You". 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. The video was world-premiered on UPN, but the single turned out to be a failure.[18] Banks released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.," which was performed on NBA TV.[citation needed] She also has a single on the soundtrack to Disney Channel's Original Movie Life-Size called "Be A Star."[citation needed] [edit] Books Banks announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, called Modelland,[19] loosely based on her own modelling experience.[20] Scheduled to be released in September 2011,[dated info] it is the first of a planned three-part series.[21] On an interview with Good Morning America, Banks stated that Modelland is the story of four girls who are accepted into an "exclusive" modelling school in the world of Modelland.[22] [edit] Further education In 2011, Banks enrolled in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at the Harvard Business School.[23] [edit] Philanthropy In 1999, Tyra Banks established the TZONE program, which aimed at leadership and life skills development.[24][25] In 2005, TZONE transformed from a camp into a public charity, the Tyra Banks TZONE Foundation.[24] [edit] Filmography Film Year Film 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 Herself in Women's Shoe Department Cameo[26] 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 1999 Felicity Jane Scott TV series A Good Egg Kissing Mr. Covington One Ball, Two Strikes Just Shoot Me! Herself TV series Nina Sees Red: Part 1 Nina Sees Red: Part 2 2000 MADtv Katisha Latisha Parisha Farisha Johnson TV series Episode #5.17 Episode #5.25 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? 2005–2010 The Tyra Banks Show Host Talk show 2009 Gossip Girl Ursula Nyquist TV series,season 3 Dan de Fleurette
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