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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
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Website www.tyrabanks.com

Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American supermodel, television personality, talk show host, actress, and businessperson.^[2][3] She became famous first as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, and New York, but television appearances made her even more so. 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-nominated 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. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (694x800, 184 KB) banks Tyra at Cannes in 2000. ... is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Nickname: Location of Inglewood in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Established 1888 Incorporated February 14, 1908 Government  - Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn Area  - Total 9. ... Talk Show Host is a song written and performed by Radiohead. ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... For the RuPaul song, see Supermodel (You Better Work). ... is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... For the RuPaul song, see Supermodel (You Better Work). ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ... // This article is about the genre of TV shows. ... ANTM redirects here. ... The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... The Tyra Banks Show is an American two-time Emmy Award-winning talk show hosted by former supermodel and Americas Next Top Model creator Tyra Banks. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... The 2005 cover of Time magazine that featured the Time 100 The Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. ... “TIME” redirects here. ...

Early life

Banks was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Carolyn (née London), a fashion manager and medical photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant.^[4] 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. Later, Carolyn married Clifford Johnson; she now goes by Carolyn London-Johnson. Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Née redirects here. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Personal life

In 1993, Banks met Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton through mutual friends. They began dating and in 1995 Banks had her screen debut in the Singleton directed film, Higher Learning. She was criticized for her acting, but Singleton assured she got the part based on her talent and not favoritism. In the spring of 1996 she and Singleton broke it off; shortly thereafter Banks was linked briefly to pop singer Seal, who would incidentally later go on to marry fellow supermodel Heidi Klum.^[5] This article is about the song by rapper Eazy-E. For 1991 film, see Boyz n the Hood. ... John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ... Seal (born February 19, 1963) is a British soul vocalist. ... Heidi Klum (pronounced ; born June 1, 1973[1]) is a German supermodel, actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and occasional singer. ...

In 2002, Tyra was spotted consistently at Sacramento Kings basketball games, and was later confirmed to be dating their forward Chris Webber. Though their representatives denied it, the two were thought to be engaged. However, after a two-year romance, they broke up in 2004. Banks still harbors some emotions over this relationship, as on the November 8, 2006 episode of The Tyra Banks Show, she broke into tears while speaking about it with Jackie Christie, wife of NBA star Doug Christie. The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. ... For the Canadian-born former BBL basketball player, see Chris Webber (Canadian basketball player). ... is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Canadian lawyer of the same name, see Doug Christie (lawyer). ...

Tyra is currently living in Manhattan,New York City with fellow supermodel and friend Amber Rives^[6] since filming for her talk show The Tyra Banks Show moved to being filmed at Chelsea Studios in New York City. This article is about the borough of New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For the RuPaul song, see Supermodel (You Better Work). ... The Tyra Banks Show is an American two-time Emmy Award-winning talk show hosted by former supermodel and Americas Next Top Model creator Tyra Banks. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

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, 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 Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Elle. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Coors Brewing Company logo The Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: RKY) is one of the worlds largest brewers of beer. ... CoverGirl was founded in 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland, by the Noxzema Chemical Company (later called Noxell) and acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1989. ... ... This article is about the fashion designer Bill Blass. ... Cynthia Rowley runway presentation at NY Fashion Week (Spring 2007) Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer. ... Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was an influential French fashion designer. ... Dolce & Gabbana () is a high-end fashion house started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce, born near Palermo, Sicily, and Stefano Gabbana, born in Milan, Italy. ... Donna Karan is the fashion designer and the creator of the DKNY (Donna Karan New York) clothing label. ... For the former railroad, see Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. ... Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer. ... McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, milkshakes and soft drinks. ... Michael Kors (born August 9, 1959[1]) is an American fashion designer. ... Got Milk? is an American advertising campaign encouraging the purchase of cows milk, which was created by the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners for the California Milk Processor Board in 1993 and later licensed for use by milk processors and dairy farmers. ... Nicole Miller (born 1952, Lenox, Massachusetts) is an American fashion designer. ... Nike, Inc. ... Oscar de la Renta (born July 22, 1932) is a leading fashion designer. ... Pepsi Cola is a non-alcoholic carbonated beverage produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Richard Tyler (born 1936) is a fashion designer. ... Rifat Ozbek (born 1953) is a Turkish-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits. ... For other uses, see Swatch (disambiguation). ... Todd Oldham is an American fashion designer. ... Thomas Jacob Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951 in Elmira, New York) is a world-famous American fashion designer and creator of the eponymous Tommy Hilfiger and Tommy brands. ... For the Sonata Arctica single, see Victorias Secret (song) Victorias Secret is an American retailer of lingerie and beauty products. ... The Yves Saint Laurent boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California Yves Saint Laurent is a fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, his Pierre Bergé. Today, its chief designer is Stefano Pilati. ... Harpers Bazaar is a well-known American fashion magazine, published as Harpers Bazaar UK in the UK after the rebranding of Harpers & Queen. ... June 1936 issue Cosmopolitan is a magazine for women, sometimes referred to as Cosmo, which has been published for more than a century. ... ELLE is a worldwide magazine that focuses on womens fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. ...

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. Also in '97, she was chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog, making her the first African American to be so honored. GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Veronica Varekova, Elle Macpherson, Rebecca Romijn, Rachel Hunter, Daniela Pestova, Elsa Benitez, Carolyn Murphy and Yamila Diaz, 2006; Heidi Klum and Maria Sharapova are in the insets. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994 and VH1: Music First until 2003) is an American digital television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently... For the Sonata Arctica single, see Victorias Secret (song) Victorias Secret is an American retailer of lingerie and beauty products. ...

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. On numerous occasions, she has been sought after to appear in Playboy magazine; however, she has turned each request down. For other uses, see Playboy (disambiguation). ...

Controversy

In recent years, Tyra Banks found herself mired in controversy with ads for her show being banned from buses across Santa Monica after members of the public complained.The cause for controversy seemed to be Banks posing in front of a waterfall in a swimsuit. Most of the complaints were from people who were concerned that the city might be endorsing a show that might be disrespectful to women, reports ananova.com. Stephanie Negriff, director of the transit services, said: 'It's a matter of public taste, we try to be sensitive to the community. We wouldn't want to do anything that would disrespect women.' This event was widely publicized in media such as IANS, India News, as well as others.^{[citation needed]}

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). The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an Emmy, BAFTA, and RTS-award winning popular American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. ... Felicity is a Golden Globe-winning American primetime television drama produced by Touchstone Television and Imagine Television for The WB network. ... For other uses, see Mad TV (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nick Cannon Presents Wild N Out is a show on MTV starring Nick Cannon. ... Coyote ugly is a term made famous by the film of the same name (see below). ... The Price Is Rights US 36th season logo. ... Barkers Beauties is a term, coined by Mark Goodson, referring to the models on the American game show The Price Is Right. ...

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. The Crimson White, known colloquially as The CW, is the student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama. ... ANTM redirects here. ... The Tyra Banks Show is an American two-time Emmy Award-winning talk show hosted by former supermodel and Americas Next Top Model creator Tyra Banks. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah) is a United States syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. ...

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.

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 1999's Love Stinks, 2000's Coyote Ugly, and 2002's Halloween: Resurrection. For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ... Lindsay Dee Lohan[1] (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. ... Old logo from 1985-2006 Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company: Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was established as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the... Life Size DVD. Life-Size is a 2000 made for TV film, directed by Mark Rosman, about a girl who wants to bring her mother back to life. ... Love Stinks is a comedy starring French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Bill Bellamy and Tyra Banks. ... Coyote Ugly is a romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City, and released in August 2000 (See 2000 in film). ...

It has also been speculated that she will direct the movie "Clique" based on the bestselling books by Lisi Harrison.

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 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." Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... Black or White was a 1991 worldwide smash hit single for singer Michael Jackson. ... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) November 26, 1939) is an 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. ... Love Thing is a single released by Grammy Award-winning rock/pop singer, Tina Turner for her 1991 Simply The Best album. ... Mobb Deep are a hip hop duo which consists of rappers Havoc and Prodigy. ... This article is about the musician. ... Too Funky was a song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1992. ... Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965 in St. ... Americas Next Top Model Cycle 2, which premiered on January 13, 2004, is the second season of Americas Next Top Model hosted by supermodel Tyra Banks, which aims to find the next top fashion model. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ...

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".^[7] 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."^[7] Rodney Darkchild Jerkins (born in 1977 in New Jersey) is an African American songwriter, record producer, and musician, one of the most successful music makers working today in the genres of pop, R&B, hip hop,, and gospel. ...

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 also sang in the musical/movie Eight Crazy Nights and is credited with performing the theme song to America's Next Top Model. Kobe Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. ... NBA TV is a television network that is dedicated to showcasing the sport of basketball in the United States. ... Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 animated musical comedy movie with Adam Sandler about the magic of the holidays. ... ANTM redirects here. ...

Filmography

For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ... Love Stinks is an episode of the animated television show Tiny Toon Adventures. ... Coyote Ugly is a romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City, and released in August 2000 (See 2000 in film). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... There are multiple meaning for Love & Basketball The 2000 film — Love & Basketball (film) The 2000 soundtrack — Love & Basketball (soundtrack) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 animated musical comedy movie with Adam Sandler about the magic of the holidays. ...

TV series and shows

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External links

• Official website
• Tyra Banks Show website
• Tyra Banks Video Channel
• Tyra Banks Photos at Maxim Online
• Tyra Banks at the Internet Movie Database
• Tyra Banks at People.com
• America's Next Top Model website
• Tyra Banks Fansite

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