Banks, Tyra

LC control no.	no 95037078
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Banks, Tyra *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19731204
Place of birth	Inglewood (Calif.)
Affiliation	Victoria's Secret (Firm) Elite Model Management (Company) Bankable Productions (Television company) Tyra Banks Show (Television show) T-Zone (Organization)
Profession or occupation	Models (Persons) Actresses Businesspeople
Found in	Higher learning, c1995: container (Tyra Banks) Tyra's beauty inside and out, 1998: CIP t.p. (Tyra Banks) pub. info (supermodel and actress on New York undercover) Levin, P. Tyra Banks, 1999: CIP galley (Tyra Lynne Banks; b. Dec. 4, 1973) African American National Biography, accessed December 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Banks, Tyra; Tyra Lynne Banks; model, actress, entrepreneur; born 04 December 1973 in Inglewood, California, United States; had a modeling contract with Elite Model Management, went to Paris and was booked for twenty-five fashion shows during her time in Paris; appeared as Will Smith's girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air show; appeared in the movie Higher Learning (1995), her big screen debut; landed a lucrative contract with CoverGirl cosmetics (1995); the first African American model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated (1997); was Victoria's Secret top model for several years; received the industry's prestigious Michael Award for Supermodel of the Year (1997); People Magazine listed her one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" (1994 and 1996); established TY Inc. and Bankable Productions (1999); established T-Zone, a self-esteem-building organization for young women; created America's Next Top Model, a reality TV show (2003); her own daytime program, The Tyra Banks Show, premiered in 2005; won Teen Choice awards (2007); won a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for her talk show (2008))