Tia and Tamera Mowry

J. on Smart Guy, which aired on the Disney Channel. She also sang "Monster Rap" and "Haunted House" on the Elvira's Monster Hits album. He played T. Elvira has become a symbol of Halloween, and owns the trademark to her wig and costume. The actor Tahj Mowry (born 1987) is their younger brother. One of the first successful horror hostesses, Vampira (Maila Nurmi), later sued Peterson over character rights issues. Tia and Tamera have also appeared many times in teen magazine articles, on posters, and on other shows. Shortly after her marriage to Mark Pierson (now her business manager) in 1981, she created the character Elvira after a successful audition to be a horror movie show host. She was the first such host to be nationally syndicated.

Early in their careers, they did McDonald's and Barbie commercials. Back in the US, she joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational troupe The Groundlings. The sisters starred in the television series Sister, Sister. In Italy, she was the lead singer in a rock band and a chance encounter with Federico Fellini led to a small part in Roma (1972). Tia and Tamera Mowry (born July 6, 1978) are twin actresses, born in Gelhausen in West Germany [1] (http://imdb.com/name/nm0610298/) to a white father and an African American mother [2] (http://www.blackflix.com/articles/multiracial.html). She became a showgirl at The Dunes in Las Vegas at age 17. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Peterson grew up in Colorado.

She gained fame wearing dark, gothic, and cleavage-enhancing clothing as host of Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is the screen persona of Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1949).