Daphne Etta Maxwell Reid is an American actress. She is best known for her role as the second Vivian Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of BelAir from 1993 until 1996.
Reid was born in New York City, the daughter of Rosalee and Green Maxwell. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She received a degree in interior design and architecture from Northwestern University, which she attended on a scholarship and where she became the first AfricanAmerican woman to be named Homecoming Queen. While at Northwestern she began a modeling career, eventually signing with the Eileen Ford modeling agency. She was the first black woman to be on the cover of Glamour magazine.
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