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.[5][6] She also has two younger brothers: actor Tahj Mowry and musician Tavior Mowry.
Her father has British and Irish ancestry and her mother is of Afro-Bahamian descent.[7][8] Mowry's parents met in high school, in Miami, Florida, both joining the U.S. Army and eventually reaching the rank of sergeant.[9] Mowry has described her family as being both "close-knit" and "deeply religious,"[6] noting that the sisters became born-again Christians when they were eight years old.[10]
Career
Music
Mowry and her sister, Tia, joined an R&B singing group in the early 1990s called Voices. The group debuted their first single, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!", in 1992 and it charted at No. 72 on the Billboard 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.
Television
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 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.
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.
Throughout 2021-2024 Mowry has starred in various holiday and non holiday Hallmark movies such as, The Santa Stakeout, Girlfriendship, Inventing The Christmas Prince, and Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major.
Other ventures
Mowry and her twin sister, Tia, started a project called Need Brand as they entered motherhood.[17] 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.[18] She signed an overall deal with Crown Media in 2020.[19]
Personal life
Mowry and Adam Housley at their tasting room in 2019Housley, Mowry, and their children, at their tasting room in 2019
On May 15, 2011, after almost six years of dating, she married Fox News correspondent Adam Housley,[20] in California's Napa Valley. Their first child, son Aden, was born on November 12, 2012. Their second child, daughter Ariah, was born on July 1, 2015.[21][22] The couple owns a home in Napa Valley, near his family's bus terminal.[23]
^On her talk show, The Real, Tamera discovered that her mother's descendants came from GhanaArchived February 25, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. 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 British ancestry: "We're actually British."
