Tyra Banks
- Birthplace: Inglewood, California, USA
- Birthday: December 4, 1973
One of the world’s top supermodels in the 1990s and into the millennium, Tyra Banks broke through the limited career options available to the distractingly beautiful and made a name for herself as a compassionate, media-savvy television producer and host. Having conquered international fashion magazines and runways, Banks racked up a number of significant achievements in the U.S. as the first African-American model to grace the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the Victoria’s Secret lingerie catalog. Banks made a handful o…more
