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Tamera Mowry-Housley
Tamera Mowry in 2020
Tamera Mowry
Background information
Birthname Tamera Darvette Mowry[1]
Birthdate July 6, 1978 (1978-07-06) (age 46)
Birthplace Gelnhausen, West Germany
Death date
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Cause of death
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Nationality American
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Alma mater Pepperdine University (BS)
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  • Actress
  • television personality
  • former singer
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Adam Housley
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Tahj Mowry (brother)
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Tamera Darvette Mowry-Housley (née Mowry) (/təˈmɛərə ˈmɔːri/) (born July 6, 1978)[Citation needed] 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).[2] 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.[2][3] 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 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.[4][5] 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. [Citation needed] 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.[6] Mowry's parents met in high school, in Miami, Florida, both joining the U.S. Army and both eventually reaching the rank of sergeant.[7] Mowry has described her family as being both "close-knit" and "deeply religious,"[5] and the sisters became born-again Christians when they were eight years old.[8]

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.[9] 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,[10] The Real was picked up to series the following year.[11] In 2018, Mowry and her co-hosts won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their work.[12] In July 2020, Mowry announced that after six seasons she would be leaving the show.[13]

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.[14] 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.[15] She signed an overall deal with Crown Media in 2020.[16]

Personal life[]

Tamera Mowry, Adam Housley at Housley Napa Valley

Mowry and Adam Housley at their tasting room in 2019

Adam Housley, Tamera Mowry, and children at Housley Napa Valley

Housley, Mowry, and their children, at their tasting room in 2019

She married Fox News correspondent Adam Housley,[17] after dating for almost six years, on May 15, 2011, in California's Napa Valley. They have a son, Aden John Tanner[18] and a daughter, Ariah Talea.[19] The couple owns a home in Napa Valley, near her husband's family's vineyard.[20]

Mowry's niece, Alaina Housley (born in 2000), was among the victims of the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, on November 7, 2018.[21][22][23]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Hot Chick, TheThe Hot Chick Sissy
2012 Redemption of a Dog Michelle

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Rosie Tamera Tanner Episode: "Adventures in Blondiesitting"
1991 Flesh 'n' Blood Penelope Episode: "Beauty Is in the Eye of the Ticketholder"
1992 True Colors Lorae Episode: "In a Flash"
Full House Denise Episode: "The Devil Made Me Do It"
1994–1999 Sister, Sister Tamera Campbell Lead role
1995 Are You Afraid of the Dark? Evil Chameleon Episode: "The Tale of the Chameleons"
1995–1996 The Adventures of Hyperman Emma C. Squared Voice, main role
1996 The Jamie Foxx Show Tamera Campbell Episode: "The Bad Seed"
1997 Smart Guy Roxanne Episode: "Brother, Brother"
1999–2000 Detention Orangejella LaBelle Voice, main role
2000 Something to Sing About Lily TV film
Seventeen Again Young Catherine "Cat" Donovan
2001–2005 Express Yourself Herself Interstitial series
2004–2006 Strong Medicine Dr. Kayla Thornton Main role
2005 Twitches Camryn Elizabeth Barnes / Apolla DuBaer TV film
2006–2007 Family Guy Esther Voice, 3 episodes
2007 Twitches Too Camryn Elizabeth Barnes / Apolla DuBaer TV film
2009 Roommates Hope Daniels Main role
The Super Hero Squad Show Misty Knight Voice, episode: "A Brat Walks Among Us!"
2010 Double Wedding Danielle Warren TV film
2011 Things We Do for Love Lourdes Main role
2011–2013 Tia & Tamera Herself Lead role
2012 Rebounding Vanessa TV film
Christmas Angel Daphney Conroy TV film
2013–2020 The Real Herself Talk show; co-host (1-6)
2014–2015 Melissa & Joey Gillian 3 episodes
2016 Talking Dead Herself Talk show
2017 Hollywood Darlings
Daytime Divas
2018 Help Us Get Married Host Facebook Watch Series
2019 A Christmas Miracle Emma TV film
2020 Christmas Comes Twice Cheryl Jenkins
2020–2021 Home & Family Herself Talk show; Family Member, Lifestyle Expert
2021-present Baker’s Dozen Herself Cooking show; host, judge
Table Wars Herself Judge, Host
2021 The Masked Singer Seashell Contestant; unmasked in the Super 8
The Santa Stakeout Tanya Morris TV film
2022 Girlfriendship Samara
Inventing the Christmas Prince Shelby
Dr. Seuss Baking Challenge Herself Cooking show; host
2023 Dream Moms

Music videos[]

Year Title Artist Notes
1999 "I Really Like It" Harlem World featuring Mase and Kelly Price Guest appearance

Awards and nominations[]

Daytime Emmy Award[]

Year Award Nominated work Result
2016 Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host
(shared with Tamar Braxton, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love, and Jeannie Mai)
The Real Nominated
2017
2018 Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host
(shared with Houghton, Love, and Mai)
Won
2019 Nominated

NAACP Image Award[]

Year Award Nominated work Result
1996 Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Sister, Sister Nominated
1999 Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Won
2000
2011 Outstanding Actress Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Double Wedding Nominated
2013 Outstanding Reality Series Tia & Tamera
2018 Outstanding Talk Series
(shared with Houghton, Love, and Mai)
The Real Won
2019

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award[]

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Nominated work Result
1995 Favorite TV Actress
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Sister, Sister Won
1996 Won
1997 Won
1998 Nominated
Hall of Fame
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Won

People's Choice Award[]

Year Award Nominated work Result
2012 Favorite TV Celebreality Star
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Tia & Tamera Nominated
2018 The Daytime Talk Show of 2018
(shared with Houghton, Love and Mai)
The Real Nominated

Teen Choice Award[]

Year Award Performance Result
2012 Choice TV Show: Reality
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Tia & Tamera Nominated
Choice Reality TV Star: Female
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Nominated

Young Artist Award[]

Year Award Performance Result
1995 Best Youth Comedienne in a TV Show
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Sister, Sister Nominated
1996 Best Performance by a Young Actress – TV Comedy Series
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Nominated
1997 Best Performance in a TV Comedy – Leading Young Actress
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Nominated
2001 Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy) – Leading Young Actress
(shared with Tia Mowry)
Seventeen Again Nominated

References[]

  1. "NAACP Image Awards 1999". The Crisis: 37. March–April 1999. https://books.google.com/books?id=UVkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37. Retrieved May 12, 2022. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Tia and Tamera Mowry End Reality Show Run" (in en-CA). January 3, 2014. https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/495543/tia-and-tamera-mowry-end-reality-show-run. 
  3. "Tia & Tamera Mowry End Reality Series After Three Seasons" (in en-US). January 3, 2014. https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/tia-and-tamera-mowry-end-reality-series-tia-tamera-after-three-seasons-201431/. 
  4. "Winsome twinsome: Tia and Tamera Mowry are 'Sister, Sister's sibling schemers". People. May 9, 1994. p. 175. http://www.geocities.com/tiaandtameramowryonline/pw_interview1994.html. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Tia, Tamera And Tahj Mowry Keep Laughter In The Family With Hit TV Shows 'Sister, Sister' And 'Smart Guy' Script error: No such module "webarchive".". Findarticles.com (March 1, 1999). Retrieved on 2012-07-06.
  6. On her talk show, The Real, Tamera discovered that her mother's descendants came from Ghana Script error: No such module "webarchive".. During an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show in 2010, it was stated that for years, the Mowrys had believed that they had Italian ancestry on their father's side; however, after researching their family tree on Ancestry.com, they discovered that their father has Irish ancestry.
  7. Double Devotion – Today's Christian. Web.archive.org (January 9, 2008). Retrieved on 2012-07-06.
  8. TV's tantalizing twins: Tia and Tamera Mowry share 'Sister Sister' sitcom, schoolwork and singing Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Findarticles.com. Retrieved on July 6, 2012.
  9. Dempsey, John (October 15, 2007). "Audiences 'Twitch' for Disney". Variety. https://variety.com/2007/scene/markets-festivals/audiences-twitch-for-disney-1117974089/. Retrieved January 12, 2020. 
  10. "It's Official: 'The Real' Talk Show Begins Four-Week Test Run July 15". June 12, 2013. https://www.deadline.com/2013/06/real-talk-show-july-15-premiere-test-run-fox/. 
  11. Block, Alex Ben (October 31, 2013). "'The Real' Gets National Syndication and Cable Pick Up". The Hollywood Reporter. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/real-gets-national-syndication-cable-652329. 
  12. Kiefer, Halle (April 30, 2018). "Here Are Your 2018 Daytime Emmy Award Winners". https://www.vulture.com/2018/04/here-are-your-2018-daytime-emmy-award-winners.html. 
  13. Corinthios, Aurelie (July 12, 2020). "Tamera Mowry-Housley Leaving The Real After 6 Seasons: 'All Good Things Must Come to an End'". People. https://people.com/tv/tamera-mowry-leaving-the-real/. 
  14. "Tia & Tamera Mowry Actors and Founders of NEED Brand | Natural Child World". http://naturalchildworld.com/tia-tamera-mowry-actors-and-founders-need-brand/. 
  15. Archipelago, World. "Twintuition: Double Vision - Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry - Hardcover". https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062372864/twintuition-double-vision. 
  16. Petski, Denise (2020-11-17). "Tamera Mowry-Housley Signs Overall Deal With Crown Media Family Networks To Star In & EP Original Films; Joins 'Home & Family'" (in en-US). https://deadline.com/2020/11/tamera-mowry-housley-overall-deal-crown-media-family-networks-hallmark-channel-home-family-1234616681/. 
  17. Wihlborg, Ulrica; Hammel, Sara (January 20, 2011). "Tamera's engagement to marry Housley". People (New York City). http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20459457,00.html. Retrieved July 6, 2012. 
  18. "Tamera Mowry-Housley, Adam Housley Welcome Baby". November 14, 2012. https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/11/tamera-mowry-housley-adam-housley-welcome-baby. 
  19. "Tamera Mowry Gives Birth! Actress Welcomes Baby No. 2 With Adam Housley". Los Angeles, California: E!. July 1, 2015. http://www.eonline.com/news/671212/tamera-mowry-gives-birth-actress-welcomes-baby-no-2-with-adam-housley. 
  20. "Tamera Mowry-Housley gives TODAY a tour of her incredible home and family vineyard". Today. October 22, 2019. https://www.today.com/series/at-home-with-today/tamera-mowry-housley-gives-today-tour-her-incredible-home-family-t165138. 
  21. Adejobi, Alicia (November 8, 2018). "Tamera Mowry confirms her niece Alaina Housley died in the California bar shooting". Metro (London, England). https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/08/tamera-mowry-confirmed-her-niece-alaina-housley-died-in-the-california-bar-shooting-8120462/. 
  22. Guglielmi, Jodi (July 27, 2020). "Tamera Mowry-Housley Remembers Late Niece on Her 20th Birthday: 'You Were Such an Angel'" (in EN). https://people.com/tv/tamera-mowry-remembers-late-niece-birthday/. 
  23. Martinez, Gina (November 8, 2018). "Actress Tamera Mowry-Housley Confirms Her Niece Is One of the Victims of the Borderline Bar Shooting". Time. https://time.com/5449326/tamera-mowry-searching-for-niece-borderline-bar-shooting/. Retrieved 2021-04-22. 

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