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.

Filmography

• Dirty Rotten Scandals
• Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model — Self - Host & Creator, ANTM
• 2024Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead — Executive Producer
• Bel-Air — Regina Baxter
• Generation Drag — Executive Producer
• I Love That for You — Tyra Banks
• You are a Top Model — Original Series Creator
• Beauty
• Indonesia's Next Top Model — Creator
• Supermodel of the Year — Creator
• 2018Colette — Thanks
• 2018Life-Size 2 — Eve, Executive Producer
• Switzerland's Next Top Model — Creator
• Insecure — Inglewood Mayor
• I’m beautiful — Creator
• Top Model India — Creator
• Ukraine's Next Top Model — Original Concept
• black-ish — Gigi
• Africa's Next Top Model — Creator
• Top Model po-russki — Special guest
• Poland's Next Top Model — Original Series Creator
• Shake It Up — Mrs. Burke
• Glee — Bichette
• True Beauty — Producer, Creator
• Stylista — Producer
• 2008The Clique — Executive Producer
• 2008Tropic Thunder — Tyra Banks
• Gossip Girl — Ursula Nyquist
• Holland's Next Top Model — Producer
• Web Junk 20
• Britain's Next Top Model — Producer
• Dancing with the Stars — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out
• Sweden's Next Top Model — Creator
• The Tyra Banks Show — Self - Host, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2004LArceny — Cynthia Dane
• All of Us
• America's Next Top Model — Self - Judge, Self - Guest, Self - Photographer, Creator
• American Dreams — Carolyn Gill
• 2002Eight Crazy Nights — Victoria's Secret Gown (voice)
• 2002Halloween: Resurrection — Nora
• 2000Coyote Ugly — Zoe
• 2000Life-Size — Eve
• 2000Love & Basketball — Kyra Kessler
• Soul Food — Nina Joseph
• 1999Love Stinks — Holly Garnett
• 1999The Apartment Complex — Neighbour
• Felicity — Jane Scott
• The Hughleys — Nicole
• Just Shoot Me! — Tyra Banks
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Barbie Q. Pepper (voice)
• 1995Higher Learning — Deja
• MADtv — Katisha
• New York Undercover
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• Eurotrash
• 1992Inferno
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — Jackie Ames
• The Word
• Entertainment Tonight
• The Price Is Right
• Sesame Street
• Afghanistan's Next Top Model — Creator
• Africa's Next Supermodel — Creator
• Aruba Model Search — Creator
• Caribbean Model Search — Creator
• Eesti tippmodell — Creator
• Honduras Next Top Model — Creator
• Mega Model — Creator
• Modelville — Creator
• Scandinavia's Next Top Model — Creator
• Super Model Centroamérica — Creator
• Top model: Philippines — Creator
• Topmodel — Creator
• West Africa's Next Top Model — Creator

Appearances as themselves (64)

• Dirty Rotten Scandals — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self
• 2024Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue — Self
• 2024Feed Me — Self (archive footage)
• In Vogue: The 90s — Self
• 2024Inside the Dream: Mugler — Self (archive footage)
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Kardashians — Self
• Celebrity Watch Party — Self
• The Drew Barrymore Show — Self
• A Little Late with Lilly Singh — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Today with Jenna & Sheinelle — Self
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series — Self
• Steve — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self, Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2014Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful — Self
• Asia's Next Top Model — Self - Top Model Creator / Special Judge
• Steve Harvey — Self
• Conan — Self
• 2010Teenage Paparazzo — Self (uncredited)
• The Talk — Self
• Vietnam's Next Top Model — Self - Guest Judge
• 2009Hannah Montana: The Movie — Herself (uncredited)
• The Jay Leno Show — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2007Mr. Woodcock — Self
• America's Got Talent — Self - Host
• Germany's Next Topmodel — Self - Guest Judge, Self - Special Guest
• Deal or No Deal — Self
• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List — Self
• On Air with Ryan Seacrest — Self
• Project Runway — Self - Guest Judge
• 2004Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2004 — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self
• E!'s 101 — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• Punk'd — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2003Totally Gay! — Self
• 2002Cleavage — Self
• Live from E! — Self
• Good Day Live — Self
• 2000Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1997 — Self
• Teen Choice Awards — Self, Self - Presenter
• The Early Show — Self
• 1998David Blaine: Magic Man — Self
• 1998Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! — Self
• 1998Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1998 — Self
• The Magic Hour — Self
• The View — Self, Self - Guest, Self - Guest Co-Host
• 1996Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1996 — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• Victoria's Secret Fashion Show — Self
• Extra — Self - Guest
• 1994Supermodels in the Rainforest — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Today — Self