Tamera Mowry
Mowry in 2020
Born	Tamera Darvette Mowry[1] (1978-07-06)July 6, 1978 (age 47) Gelnhausen,West Germany
Other names	Tamera Mowry-Housley
Alma mater	Pepperdine University (BS)
Occupations	Actress television personality singer
Years active	1990–present
Television	Sister, Sister Tia & Tamera The Real Home & Family
Spouse	Adam Housley ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	2
Relatives	Tia Mowry (twin sister) Tahj Mowry (brother) Tavior Mowry (brother)
Website	www.tameramowry.com

Tamera Darvette Mowry-Housley (néeMowry) (/təˈmɛərəˈmɔːri/) (born July 6, 1978)^[2] is an American actress, television personality, and former singer. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tamera Campbell on theABC/WB sitcomSister, Sister (opposite her twin sisterTia Mowry).^[3] She has also starred in theDisney Channel Original MovieTwitches and its sequel,Twitches Too, and played Dr. Kayla Thornton on the medical dramaStrong Medicine.

She next starred in a reality television series following her and her twin sister's lives, titledTia & Tamera, which began airing on theStyle Network in 2011 and ended in 2013 after three seasons.^[3][4] From 2013 to 2020, Mowry was one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk showThe Real originally alongsideAdrienne Bailon,Tamar Braxton,Loni Love andJeannie Mai.

Tamera Darvette Mowry was born inGelnhausen 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.^[5][6] She also has two younger brothers: actorTahj Mowry and musician Tavior Mowry.^[7]

Her father has British and Irish ancestry and her mother is ofAfro-Bahamian descent.^[8][9] Mowry's parents met in high school, inMiami, Florida, both joining the U.S. Army and eventually reaching the rank of sergeant.^[10] Mowry has described her family as being both "close-knit" and "deeply religious,"^[6] noting that the sisters becameborn-again Christians when they were eight years old.^[11]

Mowry and her sister, Tia, joined an R&B singing group in the early 1990s calledVoices. The group debuted their first single, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!", in 1992 and it charted at No. 72 on theBillboard Hot 100. Mowry's mom Darlene removed the twins from the group after a disagreement with management prior to the release of their debut album.

Mowry provided guest vocals on Jerome Wiggins' single "I Will",^[12] which was released on December 4, 2012.

At the age of 12, the twins convinced their mother to move to California with them so they could pursue acting. She agreed, on the condition that they land an acting job within the first month of their stay. In 1990, their family moved to California permanently, settling in Los Angeles, and she and her sister began appearing in commercials and small roles. Mowry and her twin sister,Tia, co-starred as the main characters inSister, 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 2005Disney Channel filmTwitches.^[13] In 2013, Mowry became a co-host of the syndicated daytime talk showThe Real alongsideAdrienne Bailon,Tamar Braxton,Loni Love,Jeannie Mai. After premiering on July 15,^[14]The Real was picked up to series the following year.^[15] In 2018, Mowry and her co-hosts won theDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their work.^[16] In July 2020, Mowry announced that after six seasons she would be leaving the show.^[17]

She returned to the show as a guest on December 8, 2020, that same day, Mowry joinedHome & Family as a new family member on the show, succeedingPaige Hemmis.

In 2021, Mowry competed inseason 5 ofThe Masked Singer as "Seashell". She was eliminated on Week 7 alongsideBobby Brown as "Crab". This show also revived Tamera being a singer.

In the same year, it was announced that Mowry and formerWhite House Executive Pastry ChefBill Yosses would be hostingBaker's Dozen, a baking competition show forHulu.^[18]

Throughout 2021–2024 Mowry has starred in various holiday and non-holidayHallmark movies such as,The Santa Stakeout,Girlfriendship,Inventing the Christmas Prince, andHaunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major.

Mowry and her twin sister, Tia, started a project called Need Brand as they entered motherhood.^[19] 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 calledTwintuition: Double Vision andTwintuition: Double Trouble.^[20] She signed an overall deal with Crown Media in 2020.^[21]

On May 15, 2011, after almost six years of dating, she marriedFox News correspondentAdam Housley,^[22] in California'sNapa Valley. Their first child, son Aden, was born on November 12, 2012. Their second child, daughter Ariah, was born on July 1, 2015.^[23][24] The couple owns a home inNapa Valley, near his family's vineyard.^[25]

The couple's niece Alaina Maria Housley was among the victims of themass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill inThousand Oaks, California, on November 7, 2018.^[26][27][28]

According to the April 22, 2025 episode ofFinding Your Roots, William Brewster, a passenger on theMayflower who became the senior elder of thePlymouth Colony, is the 13th great-grandfather of Mowry.

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