Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American television personality, producer, entrepreneur, actress, writer, former model and occasional singer. Born in Inglewood, California, she started her career as a model at the age of 15, and was the first African-American woman featured on the cover of GQ and Sports Illustrated Pool Clothes Issues where he appears twice. He was the Bidadari Victoria's Secret from 1997 to 2005. In the early 2000s, the Bank was one of the highest-earning models in the world.
Banks began acting in television in 1993 on Fresh Prince Bel-Air , and made his film debut at Higher Learning in 1995. In 2000 he had a big role like Eve. on Disney Channel Life-Size and Zoe at boxy-office hit Coyote Ugly. She has a small role in romantic movies Love & amp; Basketball (2000) and horror movies Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and appeared on the television series Gossip Girl and Glee .
In 2003, Banks created and began presenting the long-running reality television series America's Next Top Model , which he executive produces and dedicates to the first twenty-two seasons until the series cancellation in October 2015. He remains executive producer for the resurrection of this series, and asked Rita Ora as the host for the twenty-third cycle before reestablishing her own duties for the twenty-fourth cycle. Banks is a co-creator of True Beauty, and has his own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show, aired on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy awards for the Talk Show Extraordinary Informative. She hosted a FABLife talk show for two months. In 2017, the Bank replaces Nick Cannon as host of America's Got Talent for the 12th season.
In 2010, he published a young adult novel titled Modelland , based on his life as a model that topped the list of Best Sellers in the New York Times 2011. The bank was one of four African Americans and seven women have been repeatedly among the world's most influential people by the Time magazine.
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Tyra Lynne Banks was born in Inglewood, California, on December 4, 1973. She is the daughter of Carolyn London (now London-Johnson), a medical photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant. He has a brother, Devin, who is five years older. In 1979, when Banks was six years old, his parents divorced. The banks attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. Banks say that as he grows up, he is ridiculed for his appearance and is considered "ugly"; when Banks was 11 years old he grew three inches and lost 30 pounds in three months. According to a genealogical DNA test documented in the Next Top Model America , Banks are mainly African but also of British and Native Americans.
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Careers
Modeling
When Banks was 15, he began modeling while studying in Los Angeles. He was rejected by four model agents before he was signed by L.A. Models. He switched to Elite Model Management at the age of 16. When he got a chance to become a model in Europe, he moved to Milan. In his first season, he ordered 25 shows at 1991 Paris Fashion Week. Banks appear in editorial for America, Italy, France and Spain Vogue ; America, France, Germany, and Spain Elle ; America, Germany and Malaysia Harper's Bazaar ; V ; W and Vanity Fair. She appeared on the cover of magazines like Elle ; Harper's Bazaar ; Spanish Vogue ; Cosmopolitan ; Seventeen and Teen Vogue . She runs in fashion shows for Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Sui, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Herve Leger, Valentino, Fendi, Isaac Mizrahi, Giorgio Armani, Sonia Rykiel, Michael Kors, and others. She appeared in an advertising campaign for Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & amp; Gabbana, Escada, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Halston, H & amp; M, XOXO, Swatch, Victoria's Secret, Got Milk ?, Pepsi, and Nike. In 1993, the Bank signed a contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, launching an advertising campaign for a cosmetics company. In the mid-1990s, the Bank returned to America to do more commercial modeling.
Banks was the first woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the first African-American woman on the cover of GQ . In 1997, he received the VH1 award for "Supermodel of the Year". That year, he was the first African American to be selected for the cover of Victoria's Secret catalog, and became Victoria's Secret Angel. In 2010, the Bank again signed a contract with former modeling model IMG Models. The Bank is now a contributor of the Italian Vogue website . He has begun to focus on his film career and become his own TV host.
Movies and TV
Banks' television career began in the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, where he played the lead role of Will Smith's longtime friend Jackie Ames. He made seven appearances in the series. Other TV credits include Felicity , All That , MADtv , Nick Cannon's Wild 'n Out (where it is displayed as guest host and special team captain) and Precise Price (guest star as "Barker Beauty"). She also appeared as a guest on the Space Ghost Coast to Coast animated talk show in an episode titled "Chinatown".
The bank started its production company, "Ty Ty Baby Productions" - soon after that turned into Bankable Productions - which produced The Tyra Banks Show , Next Next America i> and the 2008 movie The Clique . The Bank is an executive producer and former presenter and judge of America's Next Top Model . In addition, he hosted The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which aired on September 12, 2005, and lasted until May 28, 2010. In 2008, Banks won the Emmy by day. Award for his work and production at The Tyra Banks Show, and won for the second time in a row for an extraordinarily informative talk show in 2009. On May 30, 2014, Disney-ABC Domestic Television announced their plans to develop a syndicated lifestyle talk show, with a bank that serves as a producer and executive host, to debut in 2015.
The Bank's first big screen role appeared in 1994, when he starred in the drama Higher Learning . She later starred with Lindsay Lohan in Disney's Life-Size movie, playing a doll named Eve who came to life. Other movies he starred include Love Stinks (1999), Love & amp; Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000), Halloween: The Awakening (2002) and Hannah Montana: The Movie )). The bank appeared in the fourth episode of the third season Gossip Girl playing Ursula Nyquist, a bigger actress than life. She also appeared on the Disney Channel Shake It Up as a school librarian.
In 2012, Deadline Hollywood reports that Banks will work together to create and produce ABC's comedy series based on its teenage year Five Faces.
The bank starred in a FABLife roundtable talk show with Chrissy Teigen models, Joe Zee fashion stylist, Lauren Makk interior designer, and YouTube personality Leah Ashley. The bank withdrew from the series after less than three months to focus on its cosmetics company.
More projects
Music
The bank has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson's "Black or White", "Trife Life" by Mobb Deep, "Love Thing" by Tina Turner, George Michael "Too Funky" (Linda Evangelista model Estelle Lefà © © bure, Emma Sjoberg and Nadja Auermann) and Lionel Richie "Do not Want to Lose You". In 2004, she recorded her first single, "Shake Ya Body", which has a music video featuring contestants from cycle 2 of the Next Top Model America . This video is live on UPN. The Bank released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.", which was performed on NBA TV. He also has a single on the Life-Size soundtrack called "Be a Star".
Write
In 1998, Banks also wrote a book titled The Beauty of Tyra, Inside and Out . He announced in May 2010 that he would write a novel, titled Modelland , loose based on his own modeling experience. Published in September 2011, this is the first of the three-part series planned. Modelland topped the list of Best Sellers in the New York Times in October 2011. In 2018, the Bank and his mother, Carolyn London, wrote a book entitled "Perfect Boring".
Cosmetics
In 2014, the Bank established the cosmetic brand Tyra Beauty, which he completed a non-degree certificate program at Harvard Business School specifically for. Tyra Beauty uses a multi-level marketing system to recruit sales distributors, called "beautytainers" by the company. The bank held a casting call to find a face for its line, eventually selecting Melody Parra, Monique Hayward, Katy Harvey and Top Model Norge contestant Marita Gomsrud as the original beauty cosmetic line model. Exhibition
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In 2013, the Bank transforms itself into 15 supermodels, in collaboration with fashion photographer Udo Spreitzenbarth.
Website
In March 2011, the Bank launched its fashion and beauty website called "typeF.com", which he created with Demand Media.
In 2015, he launched "tyra.com", an interactive e-commerce cosmetics website.
Teaching
In August 2016, the Bank accepted a position as a guest lecturer at Stanford University.
Personal life
The bank has been blatantly abusive in its relationship, being a victim of its own. In 2005, when asked about his relationship history, he stated, "I will not use many names on the show, but certain relationships are not just deceptive but emotional abuse. That's really bad, but it makes me strong." 2009, he opens up about his past relationship when he makes guest appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show hosting with Oprah Winfrey. This episode is dedicated to violent dating in response to Rihanna's attack by Chris Brown.
The bank dates Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during 2010, and in January 2016 they had a son, York Banks Asla, born through surrogacy.
The bank has stated that he mostly avoids drinking and never uses other drugs.
Education
In 2011, the Bank is enrolled in the nine week Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at Harvard Business School. The Bank completed the Executive Education Training Program in February 2012, obtaining a certificate. He gets criticized for implying he is a Harvard graduate. Jenna Sauers, writing for Jezebel referring to her statement at Harvard as "dishonest", and called her to "stop lying" about Harvard.
In 2012, Harvard professor Rohit Deshpande is preparing a case study on Bank companies, Bankable Productions, for use in future courses in the OPM program.
Philanthropy
The banks established the TZONE program, which aims to develop leadership and development of life skills. Bank acts as a protector for TZONE. He has also founded Tyra Banks Scholarship, a fund aimed at providing an opportunity for African-American girls to attend his alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School. In 2005, TZONE changed from a camp to a public charity, Tyra Banks TZONE.
Movieography
Movies
Television
Music videos
Publications
- Vanessa Thomas, Bush; Banks, Tyra (1998). Beauty Tyra Inside & amp; Sign out . Harper Perennial. ISBN: 978-0060952105.
- Banks, Tyra (2011). Modelland . Delacorte Books. ISBN: 978-0385740593.
- Bank, Tyra; London, Carolyn (2018). Perfect Is Boring . Tarcher Perigee. ISBN: 978-0143132301.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Tyra Banks on IMDb
- Tyra Banks in Model Mode Directory
- Tyra Banks at AllMovie
- Tyra Banks on People.com
- Tyra Banks Show website
- The New York Times Profile/Interview
- "Tyra Banks". TV Tropes. Ã,
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