# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tyra-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:37:50.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tyra-banks"
name: "Tyra Banks"
slug: "tyra-banks"
description: "Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, television personality, 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. Banks was one of only a few Black models to achieve supermodel status. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the world's top-earning models."
tagline: "American television personality, producer, and former model"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tyra_Banks_at_Fashionshow_in_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           74.34
  momentum:             1.349068322981366
  historical:           25.925208
  currentAttention:     11.48
  sourceConfidence:     100
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  228
  category: 239
totalFollowers: 22300
platforms:
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    url:       "http://tyra.com/"
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    handle:    "tyrabanks"
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    handle:    "tyrabanks"
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    handle:    "tyrabanks"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "TyraBanks"
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    handle:    "@tyrabanks"
    followers: 22300
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tyra Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill