Tyra Banks
Banks in 2011, kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Tyra Lynne Banks
Place of Birth: Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: December 4, 1973
Ethnicity: African-American
Tyra Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, businessperson, actress, author, and singer. She was the host of The Tyra Banks Show from 2005 to 2010, created, and presented, the show America’s Next Top Model, and appeared in the films Coyote Ugly and Halloween: Resurrection, among other works. She is also known as BanX.
Her parents, Caroline (London) and Donald Banks, are both African-American. A picture of Tyra with her parents can be seen here.
Tyra has a son with her former partner, Norwegian photographer Erik Asla.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show America’s Next Top Model (2014) stated that Tyra’s genetic ancestry is:
*79% African
*14% British
*6% Native American
One of Tyra’s great-great-grandfathers was named Walter Taylor.
Tyra’s maternal grandfather possibly was Ernest London (the son of Edward London and Ophelia Christopher). Ernest was born in Louisiana. Edward was the son of Charles London and Maria. Ophelia was the daughter of Antoine/Antony Christopher and Susan West Duncan/Champ.
Tyra’s maternal grandmother was Florine B. Coleman (the daughter of Fletcher Coleman and Lucinda/Loucindy Wisner/Hampton). Florine was born in Texas. Fletcher was born in Texas, the son of Ezekle “Zeke”/Ezekiel Coleman and Julia Beasley.
Sources: Genealogical information on Tyra Banks – https://blogs.ancestry.com
She’s Black nd Proud! Ya’ll by any chance watch the tyra show?? Black is Beautyful nd shes proof.Ya betta ask sumbody!lol
So what, black is lovely. Tyra looks black like most mixed people and therefore anyone who has an ounce of black blood goes as black b/c of the physical features associated with the race. Tyra has natural green eyes like Rihanna.
Everyone is mixed. No one is pure anything. Tyra wears contacts??? No wayyyy
Unless she is a Sans Bushman from Botswana, she is not Pure African…that word American…means mutt.
Purely African American????????
People don’t realise, and that disgusts me to no end, that 75% of African Americans can trace their geneology to somewhere in Europe b/c of slavery. So can you all define “purely African American” please!!! Clearly Tyra banks has a mixed ancestroy b/c there are no tribes in Africa with her total phenotype!!
What’s her phenotype? LOL. I didn’t realize she was so special or different looking. Other than the green eyes, she doesn’t look any different than the average African American. And that is b.s., there are plenty of women in Africa who look similar to Tyra Banks.
Where in Africa? I have yet to see one.