Tamera Mowry

Tamera Mowry
Tamera Darvette Mowry-Housley (née Mowry) (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress, television personality, and former singer. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tamera Campbell on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister (opposite her twin sister Tia Mowry). She has also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches and its sequel, Twitches Too, and played Dr. Kayla Thornton on the medical drama Strong Medicine.
She next starred in a reality television series following her and her twin sister's lives, titled Tia & Tamera, which began airing on the Style Network in 2011 and ended in 2013 after three seasons. From 2013 to 2020, Mowry was one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show The Real originally alongside Adrienne Bailon, Tamar Braxton, Loni Love and Jeannie Mai. She was on the Hallmark Channel show Home & Family until its cancellation in August 2021.
Early life
Tamera Darvette Mowry was born in Gelnhausen in then-West Germany on July 6, 1978, to Darlene Renee Mowry (née Flowers), who later became her children's manager, and Timothy John Mowry, who became a custody officer/jailer with the City of Glendale Police Department when the family moved to California. Tamera is the older twin by two minutes, as she was born at 4:30 p.m., followed by Tia at 4:32 p.m. She also has two younger brothers: actor Tahj Mowry and musician Tavior Mowry.
Her father has English and Irish ancestry and her mother is of Afro-Bahamian descent. Mowry's parents met in high school, in Miami, Florida, both joining the U.S. Army and eventually reaching the rank of sergeant. Mowry has described her family as being both "close-knit" and "deeply religious," noting that the sisters became born-again Christians when they were eight years old.
Career
Television
Mowry and her twin sister, Tia, co-starred as the main characters in Sister, Sister, a television show that aired from 1994 through 1999. Starring the two girls, Tamera Mowry played Tamera Campbell, who was adopted and separated from birth away from her twin sister. The show kickstarts from where the twins meet coincidentally in the mall. The comedy TV show shows the two sisters combining worlds with their adopted parents combining households. Tia, her twin, is intelligent and from inner-city Detroit while Tamera is the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs.
Tamera and Tia worked in the 2005 Disney Channel film Twitches. In 2013, Mowry became a co-host of the syndicated daytime talk show The Real alongside Adrienne Bailon, Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai. After premiering on July 15, The Real was picked up to series the following year. In 2018, Mowry and her co-hosts won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their work. In July 2020, Mowry announced that after six seasons she would be leaving the show.
She returned to the show as a guest on December 8, 2020, that same day, Mowry joined Home & Family as a new family member on the show, succeeding Paige Hemmis.
In 2021, Mowry competed in season 5 of The Masked Singer as "Seashell". She was eliminated on Week 7 alongside Bobby Brown as "Crab". This show also revived Tamera being a singer.
Other ventures
Mowry and her twin sister, Tia, started a project called Need Brand as they entered motherhood. Milky! and Stretchy! are two of the products that can cater to motherhood. Milky! is a 2.5 oz. bottle with all organic ingredients that can help mothers produce milk. Stretchy! is a stretch mark cream for post-operation scars. Another sibling project of theirs was a four-book series called Twintuition: Double Vision and Twintuition: Double Trouble. She signed an overall deal with Crown Media in 2020.
Personal life
On May 15, 2011, after dating for almost six years, she married Fox News correspondent Adam Housley, in California's Napa Valley. They have a son born on November 12, 2012. Their second child, a daughter, was born on July 1, 2015. The couple owns a home in Napa Valley, near her husband's family's bus terminal.
Mowry's niece was among the victims of the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, on November 7, 2018.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Award
NAACP Image Award
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award
Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony
People's Choice Award
Teen Choice Award
Young Artist Award
References
External links
1978 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
African-American actresses
African-American Christians
African-American television talk show hosts
American child actresses
American film actresses
American people of Bahamian descent
American people of English descent
American people of Irish descent
American television actresses
American television talk show hosts
American voice actresses
Identical twin actresses
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
People from Gelnhausen
Pepperdine University alumni
American twins
Voices (group) members
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people