Tyra Lynne Banks is an American actress, television producer, author, television personality, and former model who is best known as the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality competition series America's Next Top Model since 2003, and the syndication/The CW talk show series The Tyra Banks Show.
She appeared as herself in Hannah Montana: The Movie, Mrs. Burke in Shake It Up, Eve in Life-Size, Zoe in the 2000 Touchstone Pictures film, Coyote Ugly, Gigi in the ABC TV show, Black-ish, and the hostess and the female alien greeter in ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. She was mentioned in the That's So Raven episode "Dissin' Cousins".