Tyra Banks

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 of acting efforts, including a stint on “The Fresh