Tyra Banks Biography

American television celebrity Tyra Banks is also a producer, businesswoman, actor, author, former model, and seldom vocalist. She was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, both of which she appeared twice. She was born in Inglewood, California, and started her modeling career at the age of 15. From 1997 through 2005, she served as a Victoria's Secret Angel. Banks was among the highest-paid models in the world in the early 2000s. In 1993, Banks had her television acting debut on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and in 1995, she made her film debut in Higher Learning. She played prominent characters like Eve in Life-Size on the Disney Channel and Zoe in the financially successful Coyote Ugly. She featured in the TV shows Gossip Girl and Glee and had brief roles in the movies Love & Basketball and Halloween: Resurrection. America's Next Top Model is a long-running reality television series that Banks founded and started presenting in 2003. She served as executive producer and host for the first 22 seasons of the show until its termination in October 2015. She remained the series' executive producer and hired Rita Ora to host the twenty-third cycle before taking over again for the next twenty-fourth cycle. The Tyra Banks Show, which ran on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show Informative, was hosted by Banks, who also co-created True Beauty. For two months, she co-hosted the chat program FABLife. In 2017, Banks took over as America's Got Talent's 12th season host when Nick Cannon left. Modeland, a young adult book she released in 2010 and which debuted at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011, is based on her time as a model. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women who have consistently been listed in Time magazine's list of the most important people in the world.

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