Beverly Johnson

Johnson served for two seasons as a celebrity judge on the TV Land series She's Got the Look a reality series where women over 35 compete for a modeling contract and magazine spread. She quickly landed an assignment with Glamour and began working steadily. She has also had roles in Ashanti (1979) The Meteor Man (1993) Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) and Crossroads (2002).

Johnson was honored in 2006 at Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball along with Coretta Scott King Rosa Parks Tina Turner and other female African Americans in entertainment civil rights and the arts. She made history when Beverly Johnson rose to fame as the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974.