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Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an
ОтветитьУдалитьAmerican supermodel, media
personality, actress, occasional singer,
and businesswoman.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 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.
Early life
ОтветитьУдалитьTyra Banks was born in Inglewood, California, the daughter of Carolyn (née London), a medical photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant.The couple divorced in 1980, when Banks was 6 years old. However, the relationship
between her parents, and between her and her brother Devin Banks (born 1968), stayed friendly. Later,
Carolyn married Clifford Johnson; she now goes by Carolyn London-Johnson. 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.
Career Modeling
ОтветитьУдалитьBanks began modeling in the 11th grade.She later went to Paris, France to do some runway modeling. Within Banks' first week in Paris, she
was booked for twenty-five shows. 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. 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. In 1998, Banks authored a book entitled Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out.
The book was advertised as a
resource for helping women to make the most out of their natural beauty.Banks retired from modeling in May
2005 to concentrate on her television career. She walked the runway for the final time at the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. In 2010, Tyra Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models.
Move into television and film
ОтветитьУдалитьBanks'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. Other TV credits include Felicity, 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"). 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, which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model, and the 2008 movie The Clique. 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 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.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.In 2009, she was honored by Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) with the Excellence in Media
ОтветитьУдалитьAward. Banks's 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). 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 Girlplaying Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-
life actress who works with Serena.
Music
ОтветитьУдалитьBanks 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. On America's
Next Top Model, Cycle 2 Banks said, "Singing has been a passion of mine
for a long, long time...six years on the down low - been ducking in and out
of studios cutting tracks." Later, on her talk show, she said, "I can't believe I
wasted six 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."
Banks released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.," which was performed on NBA TV.She also has a single on the soundtrack to Disney Channel's Original Movie Life-Size called "Be A Star."