Beverly Ann Johnson[1][3] (born October 13, 1952)[4] is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman.

[5][6] In 2012, Johnson was the star of the reality series Beverly's Full House that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

[1] After high school, Johnson studied criminal justice at Northeastern University on a full academic scholarship.

[12] Johnson appeared on the cover of Vogue again in June 1975 for their "American Woman" issue, and by then had also become a runway model for the designer Halston.

[14] Johnson's acting career[15] consists of roles in the films Ashanti (1979), The Meteor Man (1993), Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997), and Crossroads (2002).

[9] Johnson received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization's Model Pioneer Award at the United Nations in 2022, celebrating her as a trailblazer and innovator in her field.

It was characterized as an "intimate, live biography with Johnson taking the stage to share her personal dispatches in the ever-shifting, but never dull, fashion and entertainment industries.

"[18] In late 2014, she wrote an article for Vanity Fair[19] in which she accused Bill Cosby of drugging her in a meeting at his Manhattan residence in the 1980s, although the incident did not result in a sexual assault.

The lawsuit sought unspecified damages and an injunction to prevent Johnson from repeating her claims and to require her to remove them from her memoir.