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
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WB sitcom ''
Sister, Sister'' (opposite her twin sister
Tia Mowry
Tia Mowry is an American actress. She first gained recognition for her starring role as Tia Landry in the sitcom '' Sister, Sister'' (1994–1999), opposite her twin sister Tamera Mowry. The sisters then starred together in the Disney Channel Or ...
).
She has also starred in the
Disney Channel Original Movie
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''
Twitches'' and its sequel, ''
Twitches Too
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'', and played Dr. Kayla Thornton on the medical drama ''
Strong Medicine
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''.
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
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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
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'' originally alongside
Adrienne Bailon
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,
Tamar Braxton
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Braxton began her career in 1990 as a founding member of The Braxtons, an R&B singing group formed with her sisters. The Braxtons released their debut a ...
,
Loni Love
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and
Jeannie Mai
Jeannie Mai-Jenkins (born Jeannie Camtu Mai) is an American television host and stylist best known for her work on the makeover show '' How Do I Look?'' and the syndicated daytime talk show ''The Real''. As a fashion expert, she is frequently fe ...
. She was on the
Hallmark Channel
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show ''
Home & Family
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'' until its cancellation in August 2021.
Early life
Tamera Darvette Mowry was born in
Gelnhausen
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in then-
West Germany
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on July 6, 1978, to parents who were in the U.S. Army, 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.
[Tia, Tamera And Tahj Mowry Keep Laughter In The Family With Hit TV Shows 'Sister, Sister' And 'Smart Guy']
". Findarticles.com (March 1, 1999). Retrieved on 2012-07-06. Tamera Mowry is the older twin by two minutes. Tamera was born at 4:30 p.m., followed by Tia at 4:32 p.m. She also has two younger brothers actor,
Tahj Mowry
Tahj Dayton Mowry (; born May 17, 1986) is an American actor. He is the brother of identical twin actresses Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry and is known for his role on the show ''Smart Guy'' as the main character TJ on The WB, though the show gained ...
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
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, both joining the U.S. Army and both eventually reaching the rank of sergeant. Mowry has described her family as being both "close-knit" and "deeply religious,"
and the sisters became
born-again Christians when they were eight years old.
Career
Television
Mowry and her twin sister,
Tia
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, 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
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, 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
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film ''
Twitches''. In 2013, Mowry became a co-host of the syndicated daytime talk show ''
The Real
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In ...
'' alongside
Adrienne Bailon
Adrienne Eliza Bailon-Houghton ( née Bailon () ; born October 24, 1983) is an American television personality, singer, and actress. She is a former member of the girl groups 3LW and The Cheetah Girls. From 2013 to 2022, Bailon was a co-host o ...
,
Tamar Braxton
Tamar Estine Braxton (born March 17, 1977) is an American singer and television personality.
Braxton began her career in 1990 as a founding member of The Braxtons, an R&B singing group formed with her sisters. The Braxtons released their debut a ...
,
Loni Love
Loni Love (born July 14, 1971) is an American comedian, television host, actress, author, and former electrical engineer. While working as an electrical engineer in the early 2000s, she switched to music engineering, until later launching a caree ...
,
Jeannie Mai
Jeannie Mai-Jenkins (born Jeannie Camtu Mai) is an American television host and stylist best known for her work on the makeover show '' How Do I Look?'' and the syndicated daytime talk show ''The Real''. As a fashion expert, she is frequently fe ...
. After premiering on July 15, ''The Real'' was picked up to series the following year. In 2018, Mowry and her co-hosts won the
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
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'' as a new family member on the show, succeeding
Paige Hemmis
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Early life and education
Hemmis, born as Paige Huff in Wisconsin, moved to Califor ...
.
In 2021, Mowry competed in
season 5
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of ''
The Masked Singer
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'' as "Seashell". She was eliminated on Week 7 alongside
Bobby Brown
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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
![Adam Housley, Tamera Mowry, and children at Housley Napa Valley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Adam_Housley%2C_Tamera_Mowry%2C_and_children_at_Housley_Napa_Valley.jpg)
In July 2013, Mowry revealed that she did not lose her
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until she was 29. She elaborated that she felt guilty after she had sex and afterward committed to remaining
celibate
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until marriage. She married
Fox News
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correspondent
Adam Housley, after dating for almost six years, on May 15, 2011, in California's
Napa Valley
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. They have a son, Aden John Tanner and a daughter, Ariah Talea. The couple owns a home in
Napa Valley
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, near her husband's family's vineyard.
Mowry's niece, Alaina Housley (born in 2000), was among the victims of the
mass shooting
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at the Borderline Bar and Grill in
Thousand Oaks, California
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, on November 7, 2018.
Filmography
Film
Television
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
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Living people
Participants in American reality television series
People from Gelnhausen
Pepperdine University alumni
American twins
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