Name: Tyra Banks
Nationality: American
Height: 5’10″
Measurements: 36C-24-36
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Born: December 4, 1973
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California
Height: 5’10″ / 178cm
Measurements: (US) 34.5-24-36 / (EU) 87.5-61-91.5
Dress Size: (US) 6 / (EU) 36
Shoe Size: (US) 9 / (EU) 41 / (UK) 6
Agencies: D Management Group
When Tyra Banks became the young correspondent on the Oprah Winfrey Show about 10 years ago, whispers began that he was being molded as the next Oprah Winfrey. Some snickered and wondered how the Victoria’s Secret model would ever reach such lofty heights.
Tyra Lynne Banks is an American media personality, actress, occasional singer, former model and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo and New York.
Tyra Banks‘ TV career began on the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which he played lead character Will Smith’s elderly mate Jackie Ames. He made four 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.”
In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show.
Tyra Banks got the go-ahead from The CW TV Network to start work on a new reality tv series based on fashion magazines called Stylista in late January 2008. The show premiered on October 22, 2008.
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.
Tyra Banks‘ first massive screen role came in 1994 when he co-starred in the drama Higher Learning. He went on to co-star with Lindsay Lohan in 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) & Halloween: Resurrection (2002).
