Tyra Banks is a model, television host, actress, and businesswoman who is known for her successful career and her contributions to the fashion industry. She was born on December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California and began her modeling career at a young age, becoming one of the first black models to achieve international success.
Banks is highly popular and has a large following of fans around the world. She is known for her beauty, style, and talent and has won numerous awards and accolades throughout her career. In addition to her work as a model, Banks is also an actress and has appeared in several films and television shows. She is also the host of the popular television show "America's Next Top Model" and is a successful businesswoman, having launched several successful business ventures, including a line of cosmetics and a clothing line.
Banks is highly respected and admired by fans and fellow celebrities alike and is considered one of the most influential and successful models of all time. In addition to her modeling and acting career, Banks is also involved in various charitable organizations and is a vocal advocate for education and equal opportunities.
Banks'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".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 hosts The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005. 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. Banks and other experts give women advice on fashion, relationships and more. 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.
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.
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 Lohanin 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 has confirmed that she will appear in Gossip Girl, in the fourth episode of the third season, as Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-life actress who works with Serena.
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