Date of Birth

6 December 1978, Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany

Birth Name

Tamera Darvette Mowry

Nickname

Tam
Tam Tam

Height

5' 4½" (1.64 m)

Mini Biography

Tamera Darvette Mowry was born on July 6, 1978, two minutes before her twin sister, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany to Darlene Mowry and Tim Mowry, who was in the U.S. Army at the time of her birth and later became a custody officer/jailer with the City of Glendale Police Department, when the family moved to California. Her mother worked as a security guard and managed Tamera and Tias acting careers. When the girls were just 16, they discovered tremendous success with their hit TV series, Sister, Sister (1994), about twins that are separated at birth who learn of each other and come back together in their teen years and it became a huge hit. After "Sister, Sister" ended in 1999, she has been in many movies and shows such as Seventeen Again (2000), The Hot Chick (2002), Twitches (2005) and Double Wedding (2010). On May 15, 2011, she married her boyfriend of 6 years, Adam Housley, in Napa Valley and, on April 25, 2012, she announced the couple are expecting their first child in November of 2012.

Trivia

• Tia Mowry-Hardrict's twin sister and Tahj Mowry & Tavior Mowry's big sister.
• Darlene Mowry & Tim Mowry's daughter.
• Attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California.
• Attended Pepperdine University in California with her sister, Tia Mowry-Hardrict.
• Majored in psychology at Pepperdine University, and spent the summer 2001 studying abroad at Pepperdine's Italian campus in Florence.
• Father was in the armed services stationed in Germany where Tia and Tamera were born.
• Born at 4:30 P.M.
• The Mowry family tend to appear in guest spots on all of each other's shows (Full House (1987), Sister, Sister (1994), and Smart Guy (1997)).
• Wears WWJD (What would Jesus do) bracelets.
• Her mom, Darlene, is of Bahamian descent & her dad, Tim is of English descent.
• She is a Seaver College graduate of Pepperdine University, she majored in Psychology.
• Was in an episode of Full House (1987), in which she played Teddy's (Tahj Mowry, her real little brother) older sister, Denise. The episode was Full House: The Devil Made Me Do It (1992).
• Youngest brother in the Mowry family of four children is named Tavior.
• 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 is a retired army sergeant who is a police officer in California. Her mother managed her and her siblings' successful careers from the beginning.
• Sister-in-law of Cory Hardrict and Arik Housley.
• (May 15, 2011) Married her boyfriend of nearly 6 years Adam Housley in California's Napa Valley following a 10-month-long engagement.
• Has 2 children: son, Aden Housley (b. November 12, 2012) & daughter, Ariah Housley (b. July 1, 2015) with husband, Adam Housley.
• Friends with Jackée Harry, Loni Love, Adrienne Houghton, Jeannie Mai, Jodie Sweetin, Marques Houston, RonReaco Lee, Ayesha Curry, and Pooch Hall.
• Much like her twin sister Tia Mowry-Hardrict, her acting mentor was Jackée Harry.
• Aunt of Alaina Housley, 18, who was killed in the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, California on November 7, 2018.
• (January 6, 2019) Her grandmother, Clo, has died following cancer battle over the weekend.
• Auditioned for the role of Ashley Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) but later turned it down in which the role went to Tatyana Ali.

Quotes

• "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!".