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Birth Name: Tyra Lynne Banks

Age: 50, born 4 December 1973

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 5' 10"

Relationship Status: Single

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Description: Born: Tuesday 4th of December 1973 Birthplace: Inglewood, California, United States Ethnicity: Black Profession: Actress, Business Woman, Supermodel Hair color: Brown Eye color: Hazel Height: 177 cm (or 5'10") Weight: 67 kg (or 148 lbs) Body type: Slim Measurements: 34-24-36 Bra/cup size: 34C (75C) Boobs: Real/Natural Achievements: Victoria's Secret Angel Tyra Lynne Banks, also known as BanX, is an American television personality, model, producer, writer, and actress. Born in Inglewood, California, she began her career as a model at the age of 15, and was the first African-American woman to be featured o Born: Tuesday 4th of December 1973
Birthplace: Inglewood, California, United States
Ethnicity: Black
Profession: Actress, Business Woman, Supermodel
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Hazel
Height: 177 cm (or 5'10")
Weight: 67 kg (or 148 lbs)
Body type: Slim
Measurements: 34-24-36
Bra/cup size: 34C (75C)
Boobs: Real/Natural
Achievements:

Victoria's Secret Angel
Tyra Lynne Banks, also known as BanX, is an American television personality, model, producer, writer, and actress. Born in Inglewood, California, she began her career as a model at the age of 15, and was the first African-American woman 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.

Banks began acting on television in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993), and made her film debut in the drama Higher Learning (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), the horror film Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and in the television series Gossip Girl (2009) and Glee (2013).

In 2003, Banks created 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 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 was the host of America's Got Talent for its 12th season. In 2020, she was the host of Dancing with the Stars for its 29th season, also serving as an executive producer.

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. She also has her own production company, Bankable Productions, which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model, and the 2008 film The Clique. 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. She is also one of only seventeen models to be ranked as a Legendary Supermodel by MODELS.com. ... (more)