Tia Dashon Mowry-Hardrict (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress who portrayed Cocoa McKellan on Family Reunion .
Biography[]
She first gained recognition for her starring role as Tia Landry in the sitcom Sister, Sister (1994–1999), opposite her twin sister Tamera Mowry. The sisters then starred together in the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches (2005) and its sequel, Twitches Too (2007). The two also starred in the fantasy comedy film Seventeen Again (2000), and voiced the LaBelle sisters in the animated series Detention (1999–2000). They were featured in the reality series Tia & Tamera from 2011 to 2013.
Personal Life[]
Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany. Her mother, Darlene Renée Mowry (née Flowers), managed her children's careers when they were in the group Voices, and also worked as a security guard. Her father, Timothy John Mowry, 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 father is of English and Irish ancestry, and her mother is of Afro-Bahamian descent. Her parents met in high school, in Miami, Florida. Both joined the U.S. Army, and both would eventually reach the rank of Sergeant. Her family is "close-knit" and "very spiritual," as the sisters became born-again Christians when they were eight. Tia is two minutes younger than her twin sister, Tamera and two younger brothers, actor Tahj Mowry and Tavior Mowry.
Mowry met actor Cory Hardrict on the set of their film, Hollywood Horror. They dated for six years, then became engaged on Christmas Day, 2006, and married in California on April 20, 2008. On January 11, 2011, People announced that Mowry and Hardrict were expecting their first child; Mowry made the announcement herself on 106 & Park. The pregnancy was documented on the show Tia & Tamera featuring her sister, Tamera Mowry, on the Style Network. She gave birth to a son on June 28, 2011. On November 8, 2017, Mowry announced that she was pregnant with her second child, a girl. Their daughter was born on May 5, 2018.