Tyra Banks

Mastoloni pearls and Tyra Banks grace the cover of September's ...

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In a stunning and elegant seven-page fantasy sequence in September's Harper's Bazaar, supermodel Tyra Banks channels Michelle Obama while wearing

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Tyra Banks is a monster. What People Will Say: "It's so bitchy and trashy and fun! Tyra's fierce in a hilarious way." What You Should Say...

Posted on August 20, 2008, 2:28 am

Tyra Banks Branded a 'Phony' by Angry Talk Show Audience

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... host Tyra Banks has been branded a 'phony' by infuriated audience members who waited more than two hours for her to appear in the Tyra Banks...
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Posted on August 20, 2008, 2:01 am

The best of the worst characters ever on reality TV

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Double the Coreys, double the fun. Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model No one wants to be on top more than Tyra herself.
Top 5 best of the worst reality stars - Canada.com
Run for The Hills and take cover - Toronto Star Online
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Posted on August 18, 2008, 3:40 am

Tyra Banks Angers TV Show Audience

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Model-turned-talkshow host Tyra Banks has been branded a 'phony' by infuriated audience members who waited more than two hours for her to appear in
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Posted on August 18, 2008, 9:53 am

Where the Only Hiking Is Toward the Runway

Washington Post - Found Aug. 17, 2008
'No offense, though.' This is Modeling Camp, where every girl is the next Tyra Banks.

Posted on August 17, 2008, 11:37 am

Tyra Banks Ready to Name America?s Next Top ?Trans? Model?

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'We applaud Tyra Banks and [TV network] The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible.' Isis currently works as a...
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Miami Herald

Posted on August 15, 2008, 5:01 am

Tyra Banks Ready to Name America’s Next Top ‘Trans’ ...

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“We applaud Tyra Banks and [TV network] The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible.' Isis currently works...
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Posted on August 14, 2008, 4:28 am

Tyra Banks blames celebs of stealing supermodels' thunder

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Washington, Aug 13 (ANI): With actresses and singers striking lucrative deals with cosmetic giants, Tyra Banks has said that the celebrity models are ...
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Posted on August 13, 2008, 5:24 am

Top Model to feature transgender contestant

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Tyra Banks is known for breaking down walls in the world of modeling, and the supermodel-turned-television mogul is at it again this time doing
First-ever transgender contestant to compete on 'Top Model' - Miami Herald
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Posted on August 13, 2008, 2:02 am

Tyra Banks Biography

Tyra Banks
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Tyra Lynne Banks

Tyra Banks at Cannes, 2000
Born December 4, 1973 (1973-12-04) (age 34)
Inglewood, California, United States
Occupation Talk show host, television personality and Supermodel
Salary $18 million (2007)[1]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Website
www.tyrabanks.com

Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973)[3] is an American television personality, Emmy Award-winning talk show host, actress, supermodel, former teen idol, and businessperson.[4][5] She became famous first as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, and New York, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. She is known best as hostess/judge of the reality television show America's Next Top Model since its 2003 debut, and is currently hosting her own Daytime Emmy Award- winning talk show, The Tyra Banks Show. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.

Contents

Early life

Banks was born in Inglewood, California,[3] the daughter of Carolyn (née London), a fashion manager and NASA photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant.[6] The couple divorced in 1980, when Tyra was six, although the relationship of her parents and especially her brother Devin Banks (born 1968) stayed friendly.citation needed Later, Carolyn married Clifford Johnson; she now goes by Carolyn London-Johnson. Banks grew up in Inglewood and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She began modeling in the 11th grade.[7]

Career

Modeling

Within Banks' first week in Paris, other designers were so entranced by her presence on the runway that she was booked for an unprecedented 25 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.[8] In 1997, she received the VH1 Award for Supermodel of the Year. Also in '97, she was chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog, making her the first African American to do so.

Banks retired from modeling in May 2005 to concentrate on her television show. She walked the runway for the final time at the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Banks is listed as one the models featured in a Playboy May 1997 pictorial on Supermodels with Claudia Schiffer on the cover, and included Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Driver, Eva Herzigova, Iman, Elle Macpherson, Kate Moss, Shana Phipps, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour and Amber Smith.

Move into television and film

Banks' television career began on the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which she played lead character Will's old friend Jackie Ames, and made seven appearances throughout the series. Other screen credits include Felicity, MADtv, Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out (in which she was featured as special guest host and team captain), Coyote Ugly 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 titled "Chinatown."

Currently, Banks can be seen on television as the hostess, Arm judge, and executive producer of the CW television show America's Next Top Model. In addition, she hosts The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talkshow aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005 and recently began its third season, drawing over 1.9 million viewers an episode.citation needed 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. 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, Tyra 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 ANTM network, CW, to start work on a new reality television series based on fashion magazines.citation needed

Her 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), Coyote Ugly (2000), and Halloween: Resurrection (2002).

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" 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 6 America's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 contestants.(Music Video) The video's world premiere was on UPN, but the single was a failure for Banks. She stated on Cycle of Top Model that "Singing has been a passion of mine for a long, long time...6 years on the down low - been ducking in and out of studios cutting tracks," but on her talk show she stated, "I can't believe I wasted 6 years of doing something that I didn't finish...I was almost able to release my album 'T.Y.R.A' but since my music career hit rock bottom I quit."cite this quote

Though "Shake Ya Body" was a failure, record producer Darkchild told JET in 2004 that Banks "has what it takes to pull it off...she had a hungriness to want to be in the studio all the time. Some people want to be divas in the studio and work for three or four hours. You had to tell Tyra to stop or she will keep you going".[9] As for her voice, Jerkins stated, '"People will be shocked. She can really sing, she's like between soprano and high alto. I challenged her vocally. I pushed her, but not too far. I pushed her where vocally it fit the track."[9]

Banks released a single with NBA star Kobe Bryant, titled "K.O.B.E.", which was performed on NBA TV, and had a single/soundtrack from the Disney movie Life-Size called "Be A Star". She is also credited with performing the theme song to America's Next Top Model.citation needed


Personal Life

Tyra is currenly living with supermodel and close-friend Amber Rives in Manhattan,New York City.[10][11][12]

Filmography

Year Title Role Other Notes
1995 Higher Learning Deja
1999 Love Stinks Holly Garnett
2000 Coyote Ugly Zoë
2000 Life-Size Eve Doll TV
2000 Love & Basketball Kyra Kessler
2002 Halloween: Resurrection Nora Winston
2002 Eight Crazy Nights Victoria's Secret Gown Voice
2007 Mr Woodcock Herself Cameo
2008 Hannah Montana: The Movie[13] Woman in Women's Shoe Department Guest appearance
2008 Tropic Thunder Herself Cameo

TV series and shows

Year Title Role Other 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 Mad TV Katisha Latisha Parisha Farisha Johnson TV Series
  • Episode #5.25
  • Episode #5.17
Life-Size Eve made-for-TV movie
2003 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 The Tyra Banks Show Host Talk Show

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