Tyra Banks

Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973), also known as BanX,[3][4] is an American television personality, model, businesswoman, producer, actress, and writer. Born in Inglewood, California, she began her career as a model at the age of 15, and was the first woman of African-American descent to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on which she appeared three times. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the world's top-earning models.

Tyra Banks
Banks in 2018
Born
Tyra Lynne Banks

(1973-12-04) December 4, 1973
Inglewood, California, U.S.
Other namesBanX
Alma materImmaculate Heart High School
Occupation
  • Television personality
  • model
  • businesswoman
  • producer
  • actress
  • singer
  • writer
Years active1991–present
Net worth$90 million (2011)[1]
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Television
Partner(s)Erik Asla (2013–2017)
Children1
Websitetyra.com

Banks began acting on television in 1993 on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and made her film debut in the drama Higher Learning in 1995. In 2000, she had major film roles, such as Eve in Disney Channel's Life-Size and Zoe in the box-office hit Coyote Ugly. Banks had small roles in the romantic sports film Love & Basketball (2000) and the horror film Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and later appeared in the television series Gossip Girl (2009) and Glee (2013).[5][6]

In 2003, Banks created and began presenting the long-running reality television series America's Next Top Model, which she executive produced and presented for the first twenty-two seasons, until the series' cancellation in October 2015. She remained executive producer for the revival of the series in 2016 and enlisted Rita Ora as host for the twenty-third cycle before reassuming the duties herself for the twenty-fourth cycle. Banks was the co-creator of True Beauty (2009–2010), and had her own television talk show, The Tyra Banks Show (2005–2010), which aired on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy awards for Outstanding Talk Show Informative. In 2015, she co-hosted the talk show FABLife for two months. In 2017, Banks replaced Nick Cannon as host of America's Got Talent for its 12th season.[7] In 2020, she replaced Tom Bergeron as host of Dancing with the Stars for its 29th season.

In 2010, Banks published a young adult novel titled Modelland, based on her life as a model, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011. Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly been ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.[8][9] She is also one of only seventeen models to be ranked as a Legendary Supermodel by MODELS.com.[10]

Early life

Tyra Lynne Banks[11] was born in Inglewood, California, on December 4, 1973.[12] Her mother, Carolyn London (now London-Johnson), is a medical photographer,[12] and her father, Donald Banks, is a computer consultant.[13][14] She has a brother, Devin, who is five years older.[15] In 1979, when Banks was six years old, her parents divorced. Banks attended John Burroughs Middle School, and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. Banks has said that while growing up, she was teased for her appearance and considered an "ugly duckling";[16][17] when Banks was 11 years old, she grew three inches and lost 30 pounds in three months.[18] On America's Next Top Model, Banks discussed the results of an Ancestry.com genealogical DNA test that gave her "79% African, 14% British, and 6% Native American" results.[19] In an interview, she added that she is also "1% Finnish", saying: "I'm 14% British, 6% Native American, 1% Finnish, and all the rest African."[20]

Modeling career
Banks in 2012

When Banks was 15 years old, she started modeling while attending school in Los Angeles. She was rejected by four modeling agencies before she was signed by L.A. Models. She switched to Elite Model Management at age 16. When she got the opportunity to model in Europe, she moved to Milan. In her first runway season, she booked 25 shows in the 1991 Paris Fashion Week. Banks appeared in editorials for American, Italian, French, and Spanish Vogue; American, French, German, and Spanish Elle; American, German, and Malaysian Harper's Bazaar; V; W and Vanity Fair.

She appeared on the covers of magazines such as Elle; Harper's Bazaar; Spanish Vogue; Cosmopolitan; Seventeen and Teen Vogue. She walked 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 advertising campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Halston, H&M, XOXO, Swatch, Versace, Christian Lacroix, Victoria's Secret, Got Milk?, Pepsi and Nike.[21][22][23] In 1993, Banks signed a contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, launching advertising campaigns for the cosmetics company. She was one of only a few Black models to achieve Supermodel status. In the mid-1990s, Banks 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.[24] In 1997, she received the VH1 award for "Supermodel of the Year".[9] That year, she was the first African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog,[25] and became a Victoria's Secret Angel.[26] In 2010, Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models.[27] Banks is now a contributor of the Vogue Italia website.[28] In 2013, Banks transformed herself into 15 supermodels, in collaboration with fashion photographer Udo Spreitzenbarth.

In 2019, Banks came out of her modeling retirement to pose for one of the three 2019 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers; the other cover models being Camille Kostek and Alex Morgan.[29] It marked her third cover for the publication, 22 years after her first.[30] She also announced that she will now go by the modeling name BanX.[3]

Television and film career
Banks at Cannes Film Festival in 2000

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.[31] She made seven appearances in the series.[9][32] Other TV credits include Felicity,[33] All That, MADtv, Nick Cannon's Wild 'n Out (in which she was featured as a special guest host and team captain)[34] and The Price Is Right (guest-starring as a "Barker's Beauty").[35][36] She also appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in an episode entitled "Chinatown".[37]

Banks started her production company, "Ty Ty Baby Productions" — soon afterward changed to Bankable Productions — which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model and the 2008 movie The Clique.[38] Banks is the executive producer and former presenter and judge of 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.[39] In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show,[40] and won for the second time in a row for outstanding, informative talkshow in 2009.[41]

Banks's first big screen role came in 1994, when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning.[42] She then co-starred with Lindsay Lohan in the Disney film Life-Size, playing a doll named Eve who comes to life. Other films she has starred in include Love Stinks (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000), Halloween: Resurrection (2002)[9] and Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).[43] Banks appeared in the fourth episode of the third season of Gossip Girl playing Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-life actress.[44] She also appeared on the Disney Channel show Shake It Up as a school librarian.[45]

In 2012, Deadline Hollywood reported that Banks would co-create and produce an ABC comedy series based on her teenage years titled Fivehead.[46] In 2015, Banks starred in the round table lineup talk show FABLife alongside model Chrissy Teigen, fashion stylist Joe Zee, interior designer Lauren Makk, and YouTube personality Leah Ashley.[47][48] Banks quit the series after less than three months to focus on her cosmetics company.[49] In 2018, Banks returned to acting for her starring role in Life-Size 2, which premiered on Freeform on December 2.[50] Banks will also star and executive produce Beauty, a documentary series for Quibi.[51] In 2018, she signed a deal with Universal Television.[52]

In July 2020, it was announced that Banks would be the new host of Dancing with the Stars.[53] In August 2020, Banks signed a deal with ABC Signature.[54]

Other ventures
Banks at a book signing in 1995

Cosmetics

In 2014, Banks founded the cosmetics brand Tyra Beauty, which she completed a non-degree certificate program at Harvard Business School specifically for.[55] Tyra Beauty uses a multi-level marketing system to recruit sales distributors, who are called "beautytainers" by the company.[56] Banks held a casting call to find faces for her line, eventually selecting Melody Parra, Monique Hayward, Katy Harvey and Top Model Norge contestant Marita Gomsrud as the cosmetic line's original beauty models. In March 2011, Banks launched her fashion and beauty website called "typeF.com", which she co-created with Demand Media.[57] In 2015, she launched "tyra.com", an interactive cosmetic e-commerce site.[58]

Music

Banks has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson's "Black or White", Mobb Deep's "Trife Life", Tina Turner's "Love Thing", George Michael's "Too Funky" (with models Linda Evangelista, Estelle Lefébure, Emma Sjoberg and Nadja Auermann) 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 contestants from cycle 2 of America's Next Top Model. The video premiered on UPN.[59] Banks released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.", which was performed on NBA TV.[9] She also had a single on the Life-Size (2000) soundtrack called "Be a Star".[9]

Writing

In 1998, Banks co-authored a book entitled Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out.[60] She announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, titled Modelland,[61] loosely based on her own modelling experience.[62] It was published in September 2011, intended to be the first of a planned three-part series;[63] Modelland topped The New York Times Best Seller list in October 2011.[64] In 2018, Banks and her mother, Carolyn London, co-authored a book entitled "Perfect is Boring".[65]

Teaching

In August 2016, Banks accepted a position as a personal branding guest lecturer at Stanford University.[66]

Personal life

Banks dated Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during the 2010s, and in January 2016 they had a biological son born via surrogacy.[67] Banks has stated that she tends to avoid drinking and has never used other recreational drugs.[68]

Banks has spoken out about abusive relationships in her past. In 2005, when asked about her relationship history, she stated, "I won't be using a lot of names on the show, but a specific relationship had not just cheating but emotional abuse. It was really bad, but that made me strong."[69] In 2009, she opened up about her past relationships when she made a guest appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosting alongside Oprah Winfrey. The episode was dedicated to dating violence in response to the assault of Rihanna by Chris Brown.[70][71][72]

Education
Banks visiting patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. on December 19, 2003

In 2011, Banks enrolled in the nine-week[73] Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at Harvard Business School. Banks completed the executive education training program in February 2012, earning a certificate.[74][75] She has come under criticism for implying she is a Harvard graduate.[76] Jenna Sauers, writing for Jezebel referred to her statements on Harvard as "disingenuous", and called upon her to "stop lying" about Harvard.[77][78] As of 2012, Harvard professor Rohit Deshpande was preparing a case study on Banks's company, Bankable Productions, for use in future coursework in the OPM program.[79][80]

Philanthropy

Banks established the TZONE program, which aimed at leadership and life skills development.[81][82] She has also established the Tyra Banks Scholarship, a fund aimed at providing African-American girls the opportunity to attend her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School. In 2005, TZONE transformed from a camp into a public charity, the Tyra Banks TZONE.[83]

Filmography
Banks in 2011

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1995 Higher Learning Deja
1999 Love Stinks Holly Garnett
The Apartment Complex Herself Television film
2000 Love & Basketball Kyra Kessler
Life-Size Eve Television film
Coyote Ugly Zoe
2002 Halloween: Resurrection Nora Winston
2002 Eight Crazy Nights Victoria's Secret gown Voice
2004 Larceny Herself
2007 Mr. Woodcock Cameo appearance
2008 Tropic Thunder Cameo appearance
2009 Hannah Montana: The Movie Uncredited cameo appearance [84]
2018 Life-Size 2 Eve Television film

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Jackie Ames 7 episodes
1996 All That Customer Episode: "Tyra Banks/Blackstreet"
1997 New York Undercover Natasha Claybourne 3 episodes
1998 Space Ghost Coast to Coast Herself Episode: "Chinatown"
1999 Just Shoot Me! 2 episodes
The Hughleys Nicole Episode: "Sap and the Star"
2000 MADtv Various characters 2 episodes
Felicity Jane Scott 3 episodes
2001 Soul Food Nina Joseph Episode: "Ordinary Pain"
2003–2015; 2017–present America's Next Top Model Herself Creator, host, judge and special guest (2 episodes)
2004 All of Us Roni Episode: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
American Dreams Carolyn Gill Episode: "Chasing the Past"
2005–2010 The Tyra Banks Show Herself Host
2009 Gossip Girl Ursula Nyquist Episode: "Dan de Fleurette"
2011 Mexico's Next Top Model Herself Guest judge; cycle 2 finale
2012 Vietnam's Next Top Model Guest judge; cycle 2 finale
Top Model po-russki Guest judge; cycle 3 finale
2012–2013 Shake It Up 2 episodes
2013 Asia's Next Top Model Guest judge; cycle 1 finale
Glee Bichette Episode: "Movin' Out"
2014 Korea's Next Top Model Herself Guest judge; cycle 5 casting episode
2015 Australia's Next Top Model Guest judge; cycle 9 finale
2015 FABLife Host
2015–2016 Black-ish Gigi Franklin 2 episodes
2017 The New Celebrity Apprentice Herself 3 episodes
2017–2018 America's Got Talent Host
2019 Germany's Next Topmodel Guest; cycle 14 finale
2020 Celebrity Watch Party 6 episodes
Dancing with the Stars Host, season 29

Music videos
Year Music video Artist
1991 "Black or White" Michael Jackson
1991 "Love Thing" Tina Turner
1992 "Too Funky" George Michael
1995 "Trife Life" Mobb Deep
1996 "Don't Wanna Lose You" Lionel Richie
2004 "Shake Ya Body" Herself
2015 "BOOTYful" Herself
2016 "Child's Play" Drake

Bibliography
  • Vanessa Thomas, Bush; Banks, Tyra (1998). Tyra's Beauty Inside & Out. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0060952105.
  • Banks, Tyra (2011). Modelland. Delacorte Books. ISBN 978-0385740593.
  • Banks, Tyra; London, Carolyn (2018). Perfect Is Boring. Tarcher Perigee. ISBN 978-0143132301.

Awards and nominations
Year Awards Category Recipient Outcome Ref.
1999 Teen Choice Awards Choice Model Herself Won [85]
2004 Choice Reality/Variety TV Star - Female America's Next Top Model Nominated [86]
2005 Choice TV Personality: Female Nominated [86]
Online Film & Television Association Award Best Host of a Talk or Service Show The Tyra Banks Show Nominated [86]
2007 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV: Personality America's Next Top Model/The Tyra Banks Show Won [86]
Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Talk Show The Tyra Banks Show Nominated [86]
ASTRA Awards Favourite International Personality or Actor America's Next Top Model Nominated [86]
2008 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV: Personality Won [86]
Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Talk Show/Informative The Tyra Banks Show Won [86]
2009 Outstanding Talk Show/Informative Won [86]
2017 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV: Personality America's Got Talent Nominated [87]
2019 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite TV Host Nominated [88]

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