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Tamera Mowry-Housley

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Tamera Darvette Mowry was born on July 6, 1978, two minutes before her twin sister, Tia Mowry, in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany, to Darlene Mowry and Tim Mowry, who was serving 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 Tia's acting careers. When the girls were 16, they discovered tremendous success with their hit TV series, Sister, Sister (1994), about twins who are separated at birth who learn of each other and come back together in their teen years which became a huge hit. After "Sister, Sister" ended in 1999, she was 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 six years, Adam Housley, in Napa Valley, and the couple has two children.
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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 The Devil Made Me Do It (1992).
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.)
Father was stationed in Germany with the United States Army where twins Tia and Tamera were born.
Majored in psychology at Pepperdine University, and spent the summer 2001 studying abroad at Pepperdine's Italian campus in Florence.
Aunt of Alaina Housley, 18, who was killed in the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, California on November 7, 2018.

"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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