Tamera Mowry Housley Wiki (Bio, Age, Net Worth, Family, Kids)
Tamera Mowry is a renowned American actress popularly known for her role with Tia, her twin, in the sitcom Sister Sister. Over the years, Tamera has accumulated a net worth of four million U.S dollars.
Tamera Mowry is a former singer and is currently a talk show host.
Early Childhood Life and Education
Her full name is Tamera Darvette Mowry. She was born to Darlene and Timothy Mowry in West Germany (Gelnhausen) on July 6, 1978. Tamera Mowry parents both served in the US army from around 1975 until the birth of their twin daughters when Darlene had to juggle both responsibilities. Eventually, she and Tim retired from active duty.
Tamera’s parents were high school sweethearts in Miami, Florida, who later coincidentally worked in the same profession and rose to sergeant ranks together. At the time of Tamera and her identical twin’s birth, the couple lived in Germany, where they got stationed to serve.
Tamera is older than her twin, Tia, just by a few minutes, two minutes to be precise, according to unknown sources. Her other siblings are Tavior and Tahj; Tahj also took an interest in acting and is actively pursuing a career in the same.
Tahj has landed roles in television shows such as Full House and Sister Sister, where he notably acted alongside Tia and Tamera several times. Tahj later took up music and went ahead to explore his talents as a singer.
Unlike the rest of his siblings, Tavior did not take up a career related to the film making industry. He is more reserved and leads a quiet life away from public and media scrutiny as not much information is out there about him.
Tavior, however, showed interest in football and actively took part in it. He participated in significant games for his alma mater, the University of California. An unfortunate injury, however, barred him from progressing with his football career.
Tamera is from a Christian home, and she renewed her vows as a Christian while at the age of eight years. She is biracial; Darlene Mowry is Afro-Bahamian, and Timothy Mowry is English-Irish.
Tamera and her sister are an alumnus of Pepperdine University, where they both studied psychology.
You can also see the Tia Mowry Net Worth page.
Career
Tamera first set foot in the entertainment industry from modeling gigs. Growing up in Texas, at the time, they participated in beauty pageants, which gave them a little exposure.
Tamera’s career started to peak in the mid-1990s after landing a significant role, alongside her identical twin in the situation comedy, Sister Sister. The sitcom debuted in 1994 and ended in 1999.
Other shows Tamera has starred in with her sister include the Disney movies Seventeen Again, Twitches, and its sequel, Twitches Too, after they both got signed by Disney in the 2000s. Tamera and Tia also featured in the television series Strong Medicine.
Tamera has done voiceovers for animated series and sitcoms such as Family Guy, Detention and The Adventures of Hyperman and Marvel’s, The Super Hero Squad Show.
Tamera has featured in the following movies over the years: Christmas Comes Twice, A Christmas Miracle, Christmas Angel, Rebounding, Things We Do for Love, Double Wedding, and Something to Sing About.
Tamera has also ventured into talk show hosting and has done remarkably well in this line of work. Her ongoing talk show series The Real continues to do well over the years, since its inception in 2013.
The Emmy-Award winning talk show gets co-hosted by American celebrities Jeannie Mai, Loni Love, and Adrienne Bailon. Tamar Braxton was among the co-hosts, but she pulled out along the way.
The talk show has excellent ratings, is renewed yearly, and is currently in its 7th season. As a result of its generally good on-screen performance, the show makes good returns. The ladies have great energy, charisma, and chemistry, which propels the show to greater heights.
However, in 2020, Tamera took her Instagram to share that she would not be returning for The Real’s 7th season. She is currently co-hosting Home & Family, which she later joined in the same year. Tamera is the highest-paid among the four of them.
Tamera, in partnership with Tia also ventured into entrepreneurship, creating the Need Brand. This brand is committed to catering to a new mother’s needs. The project’s main products are; Milky! And Stretchy! Milky! consists of organic ingredients meant to boost a mother’s milk production packaged in a 2.5-ounce bottle. Stretchy! is a cream made up of a unique formula for fading post-operation scars.
Tamera and her sister also co-authored books titled, Twintuition: Double Vision and Twintuition: Double Trouble.
Marriage and family life
Tamera got hitched by Adam Housley, a senior news correspondent on Fox News, on May 15th, 2011, at a beautiful wedding ceremony in Napa Valley. The two are the loving and caring parents of a son born on November 12th, 2012, and a daughter born on July 1, 2015.
Their little family owns a pet dog by the name Milano who is of the Shih Tzu breed.
Life accomplishments
Tamera and Tia got enlisted into the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award hall of fame in 1998. The duo went ahead to win the category of Favorite Television Actress for their roles in Sister Sister for three consecutive years.
Tamera has also gotten nominations for her features in Double Wedding, and the reality show Tia and Tamera. Her talk show The Real has also, over the years, scooped nominations and awards alike.
In 2018, Tamera and her co-hosts won an Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host Emmy Award.
Final words
Tamera has had many accomplishments over the years. She is among the most established black women in television show hosting and is undoubtedly a happy career and family woman.
Tamera is lucky to have ventured into the vicious Hollywood industry in her sister’s company. Many have lost themselves along the way, but fortunately, Tamera had a best friend in Tia.
Usually, the journey to the top is lonely and even lonelier when pursuing a career of that nature from such a young age.
