Tia Mowry

Tia Mowry, the American actress. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tia Landry on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister (opposite her identical twinsister Tamera Mowry). Currently, she portrays medical student Melanie Barnett Davis on theCW/BET comedy-drama series The Game.

Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany to Darlene Mowry (née Flowers), who managed her children's careers even when they were in the group Voices and also worked as a security guard, and Timothy 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.

She also has two younger brothers, actor Tahj Mowry and Tavior Mowry, who is not an actor. Her 2nd cousin Castadara Romant starred on the show Sister, Sister with her and Tamera as an infant. Tia is two minutes younger than her twin sister, Tamera.

Tia Mowry and her sister began entering pageants & talent shows while their family was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. At age 12, they convinced their mother to move to California with them so they could pursue acting. She agreed, on the condition that they land an acting job within the first month of their stay. In 1990, their family moved to California permanently, settling in Los Angeles, and she and her sister began appearing in commercials and other small roles.

She is well known for playing Tia Landry, a twin separated at birth and reunited with her sister as a teenager in the show Sister, Sister. The series was developed for them after a producer spotted them on the set of Full House, a show on which their brother made regular appearances. Sister, Sister was initially on ABC but was cancelled by the network after two years and picked up by The WB, where it ran for another four years. During its run, they appeared on an episode of their brother Tahj Mowry's show Smart Guy. They also did voice-over work for the Kids' WB cartoon series Detention.

Mowry married actor Cory Hardrict on April 20, 2008 at the Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore in Santa Barbara.On January 11, 2011,People announced that Mowry and Hardrict are expecting their first child. She also made the announcement herself on 106 & Park. The pregnancy will reportedly be documented on a TV show on the Style Network. The baby, a boy, is due on July 3.

Mowry is the head coach of the Entertainment Basketball League celebrity team. She coaches the Atlanta team whose players include her husband, Cory Hardrict, and co-star, Pooch Hall. She recently coached at the battle of the sexes game in Chicago against the Sky of theWNBA.