Tamera Mowry is a German-born American actress, television presenter, businesswoman, singer, author, and model. She first wowed audiences for her teenage role on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister Sister. The actress has appeared in more than one film since then. Read more about her journey in Hollywood below.
Tamera Mowry’s bio
Tamera was born Tamera Darvette Mowry on July 6, 1978. She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California and continued her studies at Pepperdine University, where she majored in psychology. She also spent time at Pepperdine’s Italian campus in Florence. Her nationality is American but she is of mixed race as her father is English while her mother is of Afro-Bahamian descent.
family (parents, brothers, sister)
Tamera has an identical twin sister named TiaMowry. The two can be recognized by the mole on Tamera’s cheek. The twins were born two minutes apart in Gelnhausen, former West Germany, as their father was on military service stationed in Germany.
The twins’ parents, Darlene Renee Mowry andTimothy John Mowry served in the US Army. Timothy retired and became a police officer in California while Darlene worked as a security guard and managed their children’s careers.
The couple met in high school in Miami, Florida. Both joined the US Army and after some time rose to the rank of sergeant.
The twins have two younger brothers, Tahj Mowry, an actor, and Tavior Mowry. As a teenager, Tavior represented the University of California, Davis in college football .
The family is close-knit and deeply religious. Because of this, Tamera and her sister became born-again Christians at the age of 8 and have remained so ever since.
career
Tamera Mowry began her journey to stardom in the early 1990s when she and her identical twin sister, Tia Mowry, joined a singing group called Voices . The group released their first single, “Ja Ja Ja!” Luckily, the song peaked at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Nonetheless, the actress rose to stardom for her role as Tamera Campbell on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister Sister alongside her identical twin sister, Tia Mowry. Following her five-year hit streak, Tamera played an active role in the 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie Shrugs and Its Sequel, Too Shrugs .
Next came a role in a medical drama that explored feminist politics, health issues, and class conflict. Strong Medicine where she met Dr. Kayla Thornton played. In 2011, the twins launched a reality TV show that kept up with their lives. The show ran on the Style Network and ended in 2013 after three seasons.
Among the many famous works she has done are The Adventures of Hyperman, Detention, Talking Dead and Hollywood Darlings. Tamera was also among the actresses in the cast of Double Wedding, Seventeen Again, A Dog’s Salvation and More . The twin star also addressed Esther to family man.
Currently, the older twin’s career has reached new heights. She began hosting The Real talk show since July 15, 2013, to date.
Tamera Mowry was nominated for many notable awards, including the Daytime Emmy Award for Host of Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show in 2016 and 2017. She eventually won it in 2018. She also won multiple NAACP Image Awards and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award.
The star from an interracial family makes a big plan to take over the big screen as soon as recent reports reveal that Tamera will be starring alongside her husband Adam and their two children in a special episode for HGTV’s premiere in May. While the Mowry Housely crew’s show is set to air shortly, Tia, Tamera’s twin sister, revealed that she and her sister are actively trying to get a reboot of their ’90s sitcom Sister, Sister in the works.
Outside of TV, Tamera and her sister have found time to work together on various projects. The twins planned to start a project, Need Brand that would provide for moms. The project’s two main products include Milky and Stretchy . Milky! is a 2.5 ounce. Bottle with all the organic ingredients that can help moms produce milk while stretchy! is a stretch mark cream for scars after surgery.
The two Sister, Sister stars have also written a two-book series: Twintuition: Double Vision and Twintuition: Double Trouble.
husband, children
Away from television, Tamera Mowry is also a mother and daughter to a wife. Before getting married, the beautiful actress saved her virginity for a long time because she comes from a very religious background and is a Christian who believes in her teachings. According to her 2013 testimony, she lost it through carelessness at the age of 29, and that’s a mistake she’s guilty of. Consequently, the star, who teamed up with Febreze for the A Happy Home campaign, has broken vows of chastity and remained celibate until marriage.
Tamera dated FOX News correspondent Adam Housley for six years and the duo tied the knot in 2011 after a 10-month engagement. The ceremony took place in the Napa Valley of California. They have two children, a boy, Aden John Tanner Housley, and a girl, Ariah Talea Housley.