Tamera Darvette Mowry
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Tamera Mowry Housley was born two minutes before her twin sister Tia Mowry on July 6, 1978 in Gelnhausen, Germany. She and Tia starred on the sitcom Sister, Sister from 1994 to 1999. After the show ended, she appeared in films such as Seventeen Again 2000 and The Hot Chick 2002, as well as the Disney Channel movie Twitches 2005. In 2011, she married Adam Housley and later co-hosted the talk show The Real, winning a Daytime Emmy Award in 2018.
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Two minutes before her twin sister Tia, Tamera Mowry Housley was born on July 6, 1978 in Gelnhausen, Germany, to Darlene and Timothy Mowry. Her father was serving in the U.S. Army at the time, and the family later moved to California. Her mother Darlene worked as a security guard and managed the acting careers of Tamera and Tia. All Mowry children’s first names start with T and middle names with D, after their parents.
Tamera Mowry Housley starred as Tia Landry opposite her twin sister Tia on the sitcom Sister, Sister from 1994 to 1999. The show centered on twins separated at birth who reunite as teenagers. After Sister, Sister ended, she appeared in films such as Seventeen Again 2000 and The Hot Chick 2002, as well as the Disney Channel movie Twitches 2005. She also guest-starred on Full House in 1992 as Denise, the older sister of her real-life brother Tahj Mowry’s character. In 2013, she joined the talk show The Real as a co-host, earning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host in 2018.
On May 15, 2011, Tamera Mowry Housley married Adam Housley in Napa Valley after a six-year relationship. The couple has two children: son Aden born November 12, 2012 and daughter Ariah born July 1, 2015. A Christian, she wears WWJD bracelets. Her niece Alaina Housley was killed in the 2018 Thousand Oaks shooting.
Tamera Mowry Housley played Tia Landry on Sister, Sister from 1994 to 1999, a sitcom about twins separated at birth. The Real, a talk show she co-hosted, featured an all-female panel of color and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2018. She won multiple NAACP Image Awards and Kids’ Choice Awards for her work.
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I Am Messy. Not Really Really Messy, but I’m Not as Neat as Tia. She’s so Neat ! When I Go in Her Closet She Has All Her Pants in One Place, Her Shirts in Another, It’s All Very Tidy! Whereas I’m Like ‘Whatever.’ You Look in My Room and It Looks Neat Enough but If You Dared to Look Under My Bed or in My Closet, Oh What a Mess!.
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She appeared in the Full House episode The Devil Made Me Do It 1992 as Denise, the older sister of her real-life younger brother Tahj Mowry’s character Teddy.
All the Mowry children’s first names begin with a T because their dad’s first name begins with one his name is Timothy, and all their middle names begin with a D because their mom’s first name begins with one her name is Darlene.
Her father was stationed in Germany with the United States Army, where twins Tia and Tamera were born.
She majored in psychology at Pepperdine University and spent the summer of 2001 studying abroad at Pepperdine’s Italian campus in Florence.
She is the aunt of Alaina Housley, 18, who was killed in the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, California on November 7, 2018.
She wears WWJD What Would Jesus Do bracelets as a reflection of her Christian faith.
Her father is a retired army sergeant who works as a police officer in California, and her mother managed her and her siblings’ successful careers from the beginning.
She is the daughter of Darlene Mowry and Tim Mowry.
She is a Seaver College graduate of Pepperdine University, having majored in Psychology.
She attended Pepperdine University in California with her sister Tia Mowry.
She married her boyfriend of nearly six years, Adam Housley, on May 15, 2011 in California’s Napa Valley following a ten-month-long engagement.
Her mother, Darlene, is of Bahamian descent, and her father, Tim, is of English and Irish ancestry.
She is Tia Mowry’s twin sister and Tahj Mowry and Tavior Mowry’s big sister.
Much like her twin sister Tia Mowry, her acting mentor was Jackée Harry.
She has two children: son Aden Housley born November 12, 2012 and daughter Ariah Housley born July 1, 2015 with husband Adam Housley.
She is friends with Jackée Harry, Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon-Houghton, Jeannie Mai, Jodie Sweetin, Marques Houston, RonReaco Lee, Ayesha Curry, and Pooch Hall.
The Mowry family tend to appear in guest spots on all of each other’s shows, including Full House, Sister, Sister, and Smart Guy.
She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California.
She was born at 4:30 P.M.
She is the sister-in-law of Cory Hardrict and Arik Housley.
Her youngest brother in the Mowry family of four children is named Tavior.
She auditioned for the role of Ashley Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air but later turned it down, and the role went to Tatyana Ali.
On January 6, 2019, her grandmother, Clo, died following a cancer battle over the weekend.
She and her sister used to babysit Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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