Tia Mowry-Hardrict Wiki (Bio, Age, Net Worth, Family, Kids, Movies)
Tia Dashon Mowry is a highly acclaimed American actress and more so in the black community. She is known to act alongside identical twin sister Tamera Mowry mostly. Tia has partly worked alongside her sister along the way to make a name for herself.
Years of hard work have seen her amass a net worth of up to 4 million U.S dollars. Besides acting, Tia is also an author, producer, singer, and is a voice-over artist.
Early childhood life and educational background
Tia was born on July 6th, 1978, in Gelnhausen, which used to be referred to as West Germany to parents Timothy and Darlene Renée Mowry. Her parents were both actively serving in the army and got posted to Germany at the time. Tia was born a few minutes after her identical twin sister.
Tia has three siblings, identical twin sister, Tamera, and brothers: Tahj and Tavior. Her family moved from Germany to the U.S.A some years after she was born. Tia, together with her twin sister, spent a significant part of their childhood in Hawaii. They then late moved to California to pursue their acting career.
Tia is born of racially diverse parents. Her father, Timothy, has English and Irish roots whereas, Darlene is a woman of color of Afro-Bahamian origins. Hence this makes Tia and the rest of her siblings biracial.
Growing up biracial had its good and ugly. However, Tia’s parents worked to ensure there is no space left for an identity crisis. Most biracial individuals admit to the feeling of not entirely belonging to the black community due to their ill-perceived privilege that comes with their lighter toned skin.
She has got brought up in a religious family, which inspired her new journey to Christianity at the tender age of eight. Tia and her sister Tamera both attended Pepperdine University and also took up the same course: psychology. Tia also briefly studied Italian and humanities in Europe.
Tia’s brother Tahj also started his acting career early and acted alongside his sisters in the hit television show Sister Sister. Tavior prefers to keep his private life under wraps, and unlike his siblings, he took an interest in football, which he indulged in during his college days.
You can also see our Tamera Mowry Net Worth page.
Career
Modeling formed the base of their acting career as before venturing into an acting career, Tia and her sister first started as models. The two participated in several pageants and events alike while in Texas.
In 1990, Tia and her sister convinced their parents to make the big move to Los Angeles after they fulfilled their mother’s condition. In the early days of their acting career, Tia and Tamera got featured in commercials and minor roles in television shows.
Around the same period, Tia and her sister formed the Voices. The music duo released their first single in the early 1990s, and it surprisingly did well and even managed to feature on the Billboard Hot 100.
Their big break came in the mid-1990s when they landed significant roles on the popular sitcom Sister Sister. They played recurring roles alongside their younger brother Tahj who also got a feature on the show. The show went on for about six years from when it debuted in 1994.
Apart from Sister Sister, Tia and her sister have featured in many television shows and movies: The Hot Chick, the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches and its sequel Twitches Too, Seventeen Again, Strong Medicine, Blue’s Clues, Full House, among others.
The two also featured in their television reality show, Tia & Tamera, where they documented some of their significant life milestones.
Tia has also gotten featured in some movies and shows without her sister. A few of these include the television show, The Game which debuted in 2006, and Instant Mom, which only lasted two years from 2013. Tia also has featured in movies such as, Baggage Claim which debuted in 2013, and Indivisible, released in 2018.
Other series Tia has featured in include Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn, Rosewood, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Mistresses, to mention but a few. Tia has an ongoing role in the Netflix show Family Reunion, which debuted in 2019.
Tia also writes and has published a book that was released in 2012; she tells pregnancy tales and shares advice with fellow mothers.
As a voice-over artist, she has landed voice acting roles in Bratz, The Adventures of Hyperman, and Detention. Tia also hosted her cooking show, Tia Mowry at Home. The show debuted in 2015 and went on for just two years. In the following year, Tia started a podcast, Mostly Mom with Tia Mowry.
Family life
After a six-year-long period of courtship and dating, Tia wedded fellow actor Cory Hardrict in an intimate wedding ceremony on April 20th, 2008. The couple has two children, Cree and Cairo. Tia’s son, Cree, was born on June 28th, 2011, and the daughter Cairo was born on May 5th, 2018.
Life accomplishments
Tia has accomplished a lot over the years. Her parents have played a significant role in her career’s success by always providing sound counsel, among other parenting duties. In 1998, the child prodigies, Tia and Tamera, were inducted into the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Hall of Fame.
Another notable achievement is from the nominations and awards received from the roles they portrayed in Sister Sister. Tia and her sister received awards such as Favorite Television Actress and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1995 and 1999.
Aside from the accolades received from the joint projects with her sister, Tia also got nominations from roles played independently without Tamera. Tia received various nominations from the roles she portrayed in Baggage Claim, The game, and Instant Mom, among others.
Final words
Tia recently took to Instagram to highlight her first-hand experience with racism and “White privilege.” In the same post, she went ahead to give real-life examples of how their mother was treated indifferently due to her color and the “White privilege” they saw their dad enjoy.
Tia has achieved much by herself but undoubtedly attained greater alongside her twin, Tamera. Tia has made a name for herself and is said to have had a somewhat successful Hollywood career.
