Tamera Mowry-Housley
Tamera Mowry-Housley is an Emmy award-winning host, author, actress, producer, and entrepreneur who has captivated audiences for over 30 years.
Mowry-Housley started her career in Hollywood alongside her sister, Tia, on the hit show Sister, Sister, which aired over 100 episodes from 1994-1999 and has gone on to see a cultural revival over the past few years since it was released on Netflix. Mowry-Housley’s work on the show gained praise and recognition; she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series and Kid’s Choice Award for Favorite Television Actress. She returned to the screen with sister, Tia, on the hit Style Network reality TV series Tia and Tamera, which chronicled her life as she balanced her acting career along with major life transformations of marriage and motherhood.
Mowry-Housley co-hosted the groundbreaking and Emmy-winning talk show, The Real, for six seasons. The Real is the first syndicated talk show in years to be renewed for a sixth season. Mowry-Housley worked alongside co-hosts Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon-Houghton, and Jeannie Mai Jenkins. Together, the ladies won the “Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host” Emmy at the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards in April 2018.
In November 2020, it was announced that Mowry-Housley would be expanding her relationship with Hallmark Media in a new overall deal to star in and executive produce original films for the network. In 2021, Mowry-Housley starred and executive produced Hallmark Channel’s hit movie The Santa Stakeout. Mowry-Housley’s credits include the television movies Christmas Comes Twice, A Christmas Miracle, which she also executive produced, Christmas Angel, Something to Sing About, and Seventeen Again. She was a series regular on Strong Medicine, Roommates (ABC Family), and Melissa and Joey (ABC Family). Mowry-Housley has voiced characters in the FOX hit Family Guy and Cartoon Network’s Super Hero Squad Show. She also produced and starred in the Lifetime movie Double Wedding. On the big screen, Mowry-Housley co-starred in the Rob Schneider comedy The Hot Chick. In October 2022, Mowry-Housley starred in Hallmark Channel’s Girlfriendship and another one of Hallmark’s beloved Christmas movies entitled Inventing the Christmas Prince, which premiered in November 2022.
She showcases her singing and dancing talents in Hallmark’s Dream Moms movie alongside co-star Chelsea Hobbs. Released in May 2023 on the Hallmark Channel, the movie centers on two moms whose deferred Broadway dreams get reignited when they enter a TV talent show competition together and learn that it’s never too late to become what or who you want to be. In September 2023, she starred in Hallmark’s Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major which premiered in September 2023.
Most recently, she can be seen starring in the holiday film, Scouting for Christmas, on the Hallmark Channel.
As a beloved television host, Mowry-Housley can be seen across many shows. In October 2021, Hulu premiered their newest baking competition series Baker’s Dozen hosted by Mowry-Housley and former White House pastry chef Bill Yosses. Together, they hosted the unscripted series which pitted passionate amateur bakers against seasoned culinary experts. In the show, contestants compete in head-to-head challenges for a chance to win the golden rolling pin and a cash prize. Additionally, Mowry-Housley served as a judge alongside Martha Stewart and Chris Hessney on HGTV’s design competition show, Table Wars which premiered in November 2021. Mowry-Housley hosted Amazon Studios’ hit unscripted series the Dr. Seuss Baking Challenge alongside pastry chefs Clarice Lam and Joshua John Russell. In each episode, bakers are given a challenge based on Dr. Seuss’s characters and stories, and their work is judged on taste, creativity, and storytelling. The hit show ranked in Prime Video’s top 10 originals for several weeks following its premiere on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee on December 13, 2022.
In addition to her movie and television projects, Mowry-Housley is also a best-selling author. In October 2022, Mowry-Housley debuted her highly anticipated memoir, You Should Sit Down For This. In the book, Mowry-Housley sheds her “good girl” image to empower other women to step up to life’s unexpected turns and surprises and to make it all work. The memoir is filled with Mowry-Housley’s lifelong memories from before Sister, Sister to where she is now at this point in her life, peppered in with “Tamera-isms” where she dishes out her best life advice for a myriad of situations.
Born in Germany and raised in Southern California, Mowry-Housley graduated with Honors from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and an emphasis on Abnormal Childhood Development. After meeting at Pepperdine, Mowry-Housley married FOX News correspondent Adam Housley in May 2011, and they welcomed their first child Aden John Tanner Housley in November 2012, and their second child Ariah Talea Housley July 2015. They live in Napa Valley, where they co-own Century Oak Winery. Mowry-Housley and Adam also opened their own celebrated tasting room, Housley Napa Valley, in the heart of Downtown Napa where they both can frequently be seen pouring their family wines for fans and visitors. They also opened their own coffeehouse and coffee line called Barnhouse Napa Brews in Downtown Napa in Winter 2021. They feature 6 brews of coffee at the shop – all of which are locally brewed, sourced, and grown sustainably from all over the world. 90% of the food and products available for sale are women and minority owned.