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Infobox person| name = Tyra Lynn Banks| image = Tyra Banks 2012 Shankbone.JPG| caption = Banks at the 2012 Time 100 gala| birth_name = Tyra Lynn Banks| birth_date = birth date and age|1973|12|4| birth_place = nowrap| Inglewood, California , U.S.| occupation = Model Actress Author Singer| height = height|ft=5|in=10cite web|url= http://www.celebheights.com/s/Tyra-Banks-576.html|title= Tyra Banks Height – how tall America's Next Top Model Cycle 13, episode 4.| haircolor = brown| eyecolor = brown| measurements = 34D-24-35½| years_active = 1991–present| website = http://www.typeF.com typeF.com| Agency = IMG Models | Net worth = $90 million (2011)cite web|last=Mosthof|first=Mariella|title=Tyra Banks Named One of the Richest Supermodels in the World|url= http://www.wetpaint.com/americas-next-top-model/articles/tyra-banks-named-one-of-the-richest-supermodels-in-the-world|work=Wetpaint|publisher=Wetpaint Entertainment|accessdate=8 February 2012 Tyra Lynn Banks (born December 4, 1973). is an United States|American model (person)|model , media personality , actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman.cite web|url= http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/tyra-banks/|title=Tyra Banks:Biography on MSN|author=Jason Clark|accessdate=2008-07-18|year=2008|publisher= MSN cite web|url= http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/BeautySecrets/story? id=1280787|title= ABC News: Tyra Banks Experiences Obesity Through Fat Suitcite news|url= http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0703/120.html|title= Tyra Banks On It – Forbes.com | date=March 7, 2006 She first became famous as a model, appearing twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and working for Victoria's Secret as one of their original Victoria's Secret Angels|Angels . Banks is the creator and host of the UPN / The CW reality television show '' America's Next Top Model , co-creator of True Beauty (TV series)|True Beauty , and host of her own talk show , The Tyra Banks Show .
Early life
Tyra Banks was born in Inglewood, California . She is the daughter of Caroline ( married and maiden names|née London; now London-Johnson), a medical photographer,cite web|title=Tyra Banks Biography|url= http://www.biography.com/articles/Tyra-Banks-16242328|accessdate=17 July 2011 and Donald Banks, a computer consultant.cite web|url= http://www.filmreference.com/film/26/Tyra-Banks.html|title= Tyra Banks Biography|publisher = FilmReference.com 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 (Los Angeles)|John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles)|Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. Tyra Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time (magazine)| Time magazine .
Career
Modeling
When Banks was 15 years old, she started modeling while attending school in Los Angeles. She was rejected by four modeling agencies before she was signed by Elite Model Management at age 16. When she got the opportunity to model in Europe, she put college on hold and moved to Milan . In her first runway season, she was booked a record 25 shows at the 1991 Paris fashion week . She would later grace the covers of ELLE and Vogue (magazine)|Vogue Spain. She walked the runways for Chanel , Isaac Mizrahi , Anna Sui , Sonia Rykiel , Todd Oldham , Christian Lacroix , Christian Dior , Karl Lagerfeld , Calvin Klein , Badgley Mischka , Marina Spadafora, Michael Kors , Perry Ellis , Gemma Kahng, Valentino , Tracy Reese , Nicole Miller and Fendi as well as appearing in ad campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana , Yves Saint Laurent , Ralph Lauren and others. http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/tyra_banks/ Bank Profile at Fashion Model Directory, Retrieved on 2012-03-31. In the mid-1990's, Banks returned to America to do more commercial modeling.
Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue .cite web|url= http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Tyra_Banks|title= Tyra Banks Profile|publisher= FMD-database|accessdate= 2008-06-11 In 1997, she received the VH1 award for, "Supermodel of the Year."fact|date=October 2011 That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog.cite news| url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n7_v52/ai_19383832/ | work=Ebony | title=Tyra Banks: on top of the world – African American fashion model | first=Lynn | last=Norment | year=1997 She is one of the original Victoria's Secret Angels .
In 2010, Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models . http://imgmodels.com/details.aspx? navbtn=1& cityID=1& modelid=19410& pic=& subid=1767& mainsubid=1767& agencyID=& catID=1& pageNo=& selectedModel=TYRA%20BANKS Bio at Imgmodels.com. Retrieved on 2010-05-27. Banks is now a contributor of the Vogue Italia website.
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 (character)|Will Smith 's old friend Jackie Ames . She made seven appearances in the series.fact|date=October 2011 Other TV credits include Felicity (TV series)|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 Beauties|Barker's Beauty ").fact|date=October 2011 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 (previously named, "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 (film)|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.
In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show .Citation needed|date=December 2010, and won for the second time in a row for outstanding, informative talkshow. In 2010, Oprah Winfrey congratulated Tyra Banks for a good job done on her talk-show for inspiring and mentoring young women.
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 Modelitha . The show premiered on October 22, 2008.Citation needed|date=December 2010 Banks's first big screen role came in 1994, when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning .cite web|url= http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/entertainment_and_celebrities/cover_models/tyra_banks_shape_cover|title= Tyra Banks' Bikini Body She then co-starred with Lindsay Lohan in the Walt Disney Pictures|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 (film)|Love Stinks (1999), Love & Basketball (film)|Love & Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (film)|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 (TV series)|Gossip Girl http://www.usmagazine.com/news/tyra-banks-joining-gossip-girl-2009317 Tyra Banks Joining Gossip Girl . usmagazine.com (2010-03-04). Retrieved on 2011-09-29. playing Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-life actress who works with Serena.
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 supermodels Linda Evangelista , Estelle Lefebure , Emma Sjoberg and Nadja Auermann ) 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. http://www.biographyarchive.com/biography-of-tyra-banks.html Biography of Tyra Banks: Career
Banks released a single with National Basketball Association|NBA player Kobe Bryant , entitled "K.O.B.E.," which was performed on NBA TV .Citation needed|date=June 2011 She also has a single on the soundtrack to List of Disney Channel Original Movies|Disney Channel's Original Movie Life-Size called "Be A Star."Citation needed|date=June 2011
Books
In 1998, Banks authored a book entitled ''Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out .cite web|url= http://www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org/reviews/tyra-banks|title= Tyra Banks, Supermodel, Talk Show Host, and Actress|work=New York Times Bestsellerlist
Website
In March 2011, Banks launched her fashion and beauty website called "typeF.com", which she co-created with Demand Media. http://www.typef.com/about-us/ About Us typeF web site
Other
In 2011, Banks enrolled in the nine-week-long Owner/President Manager Program (OPM) at Harvard Business School 's open-enrollment extension school. Harvard Crimson , http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/2/16/program-banks-baugher-opm/ Tyra Banks Enrolls at Harvard Business School 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2011-03-13. Banks passed the Executive Education Training Program in February 2012.Hughes, Sarah Ann. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/tyra-banks-graduates-from-harvards-executive-education-program/2012/02/24/gIQASv0vXR_blog.html? tid=pm_entertainment_pop "Tyra Banks graduates from Harvard’s executive education program." 24 Feb. 2012, Washington Post
Philanthropy
In 1999, Tyra Banks established the TZONE program, which aimed at leadership and life skills development. http://tzonefoundation.org/ TZONE Story. TZONE Foundation , accessed January 14, 2011. http://www.facesofphilanthropy.com/tyra-banks-philanthropy/ Tyra Bank's Faces of Philanthropy page. Faces of Philanthropy , accessed January 14, 2011. Banks acts as the patron for TZONE. She has also established the Tyra Banks Scholarship, a fund aimed at providing African-American girls the opportunity to attend her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School. In 2005, TZONE transformed from a camp into a public charity, the Tyra Banks TZONE Foundation.
Episode Finale in '' Mexico's Next Top Model, Cycle 2
2012
Episode Finale in '' Vietnam's Next Top Model, Cycle 2
Shake It Up
Episode: " List of Shake It Up episodes#ep37|Parent Trap It Up "
Top Model po-russki
Episode Finale in Top Model po-russki, Cycle 3
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http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/ The Tyra Banks Show website
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/magazine/01tyra-t.html The New York Times Profile/Interview
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