
Tyra Banks
Department: Acting
Biography
Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973), is an American television personality, model, producer, writer, and actress. 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, she was one of the world's top-earning models.
Known For

Teenage Paparazzo
2010

Halloween: Resurrection
2002

Coyote Ugly
2000

Eight Crazy Nights
2002

Love & Basketball
2000

Life-Size
2000

Love Stinks
1999

LArceny
2004

Higher Learning
1995

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998

Supermodels in the Rainforest
1994

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2004
2004

Totally Gay!
2003

Inferno
1992

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1998
1998

David Blaine: Magic Man
1998

Tropic Thunder
2008

Cleavage
2002

Life-Size 2
2018

Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1997
2000

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1996
1996

The Apartment Complex
1999

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful
2014

Mr. Woodcock
2007

FEED ME
2021

Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024

Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue
2024

Black or White
1991

Sesame Street
1969

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

The Tony Danza Show
2004

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

All of Us
2003

The Daily Show
1996

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
2005

The Price Is Right
1972

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990

Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out
2005

Today
1952

The Tyra Banks Show
2005

Punk'd
2003

The View
1997

Tamron Hall
2019

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Web Junk 20
2006

Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994

Soul Food
2000

American Dreams
2002

Felicity
1998

Gossip Girl
2007

New York Undercover
1994

The Early Show
1999

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015

The Jay Leno Show
2009

MADtv
1995

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Hughleys
1998

Just Shoot Me!
1997

A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019

Good Day Live
2001

E!'s 101
2003

Shake It Up
2010

Deal or No Deal
2005

Glee
2009

Live from E!
2002

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
1995

Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995

Wetten, dass..?
1981

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015

Asia's Next Top Model
2012

America's Next Top Model
2003

I Love That for You
2022

America's Next Top Model
2003

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

Sherri
2022

The View
1997

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995

Hot Ones
2015

Teen Choice Awards
1999

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

America's Got Talent
2006

Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The Kardashians
2022

The Magic Hour
1998

black-ish
2014

Top Model po-russki
2011

On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004

Insecure
2016

The View
1997

Beauty
2020

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Celebrity Watch Party
2020

Dancing with the Stars
2005

The Drew Barrymore Show
2020

Conan
2010

Hollywood Squares
2025

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019

America's Next Top Model
2003

Entertainment Tonight
1981

Project Runway
2004

In Vogue: The 90s
2024

Teen Choice Awards
1999

Vietnam's Next Top Model
2010

Bel-Air
2022

Germany's Next Topmodel
2006

Extra
1994

Germany's Next Topmodel
2006

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
2026