Fashion model Tyra Banks was born December 4, 1973 in Los Angeles. At 17 she was signed by the Elite modeling agency, and has since appeared on more than 20 magazine covers and become a national spokesmodel for Victoria’s Secret lingerie.
"I’m so not a bar girl now. This whole movie was total acting for me. But when I was 15 or 16 in Los Angeles, I had a fake ID and was hitting Roxbury and places like that serious for two years."
But that doesn't stop her now. Especially in doin research for her character Zoe. "I checked out one of these bars, Hogs & Heifers, with my hairdresser. It was
really insane, a lot rougher than the bar in our movie. I just wanted to observe from the back, but the babes behind the bar started yelling, “Girl, you’d better come on up here!” So I climbed up on top of the bar and danced. They wanted to hang my bra from the ceiling with all the others, but I managed to get out of there with
my underwear intact."
On her resume: Tyra made her Hollywood debut on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Since then she's appeared in films Higher Learning, Love & Basketball and Love Stinks. Watch out for her in her new film Larceny (2001).
Tyra is ready to take the world on and the world is definitly ready for her. “Oh, I definitely want to be a movie star: Most actresses right now have been models, but they weren’t famous, so people don’t know that.”
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