Jeremiah Brent (born Jeremy Clevenger Johnson; November 24, 1984) is an American
interior designer
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and
television personality
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. He founded his design firm Jeremiah Brent Design (JBD) in 2011, a full service interior design firm based in
Los Angeles
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and
New York City
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. He stars in the 2017
TLC
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series ''
Nate & Jeremiah by Design'' (2017) and as the event designer in the
Netflix
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reality series ''
Say I Do'' (2020).
Early life and education
The son of Gwen A. Johnson and Terry Johnson, Brent was born and raised in
Modesto, California. Growing up, his father was a deputy sheriff in Modesto and his mother was a paralegal in
San Francisco
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.
Brent graduated from
Modesto High School
Modesto High School is a public high school in Modesto, California, United States. It offers the International Baccalaureate Program and the Avid program, Performing Arts Program and was the first public school to do so in the Central Valley of ...
in 2002, where he went by the name Jeremy Johnson. While at Modesto High, Brent was active in drama, speech and debate. In 2004 at the age of 19, he moved to
Los Angeles
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. Brent spent his first year living on friends' couches and in his
Jeep. His first apartment was across the street from
Covenant House
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, a shelter for homeless teens, which he later helped redesign.
Career
Jeremiah Brent is an actor and producer, known for ''
The Ode
''The Ode'' is a 2008 film directed by Nilanjan Neil Lahiri and starring Sachin Bhatt, Wilson Cruz and Sakina Jaffrey. The film is an adaptation of the novel, ''Ode to Lata'' by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. The biopic was shot on location in Kenya an ...
'' (2008), ''
Nate & Jeremiah by Design'' (2017), ''
The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project'' (2021), ''
The Rachel Zoe Project
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'' (2011), ''
Say I Do'' (2020) and ''Home Made Simple'' (2015). In early 2014, Brent and
Nate Berkus
Nathan Jay Berkus (born September 17, 1971) is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and was a regularly featured guest on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', off ...
were featured in clothier
Banana Republic
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's "True Outfitters" ads in ''
InStyle
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'' and ''
Rolling Stone
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'', among other magazines. ''
The New York Times
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'' noted they were the first
same-sex couple
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to be featured in ads for the magazines. Their Manhattan apartment was featured in the September 2015 issue of ''
Architectural Digest'' magazine, where Jeremiah Brent and Nate Berkus appeared on the cover with their daughter Poppy.
Brent was featured in many television shows with a big break in 2011 when he became a styling associate to
Rachel Zoe
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on her syndicated show ''
The Rachel Zoe Project
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'' in the fourth season of the show. He has also appeared in covers of various publications such as ''
Domino
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'' magazine, ''
Architectural Digest'', ''
Harper's Bazaar'' and ''
People
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'' magazine. He was host of the Emmy Award-winning show ''Home Made Simple'', broadcast for two seasons on
Oprah Winfrey's
OWN
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network. Alongside his husband, fellow interior designer
Nate Berkus
Nathan Jay Berkus (born September 17, 1971) is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and was a regularly featured guest on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', off ...
, he launched in 2017 the TV show ''
Nate & Jeremiah by Design'' broadcast on
TLC
TLC may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Television
* ''TLC'' (TV series), a 2002 British situational comedy television series that aired on BBC2
* TLC (TV network), formerly the Learning Channel, an American cable TV network
** TLC (Asia), an A ...
network.
/sup> In 2017, he also became part of Living Spaces particularly ''Living Spaces presents Behind the Design''.
In 2020, Brent began starring as the design expert on Netflix
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's reality show '' Say I Do'' - a wedding version of hit show '' Queer Eye''.
Personal life
After one year of dating, he became engaged to fellow interior designer
Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordina ...
and television personality Nate Berkus
Nathan Jay Berkus (born September 17, 1971) is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and was a regularly featured guest on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', off ...
in April 2013. They were married on May 4, 2014 in Manhattan. The couple's Jewish–Buddhist ceremony was officiated by the then-president of the Oprah Winfrey Network, Sheri Salata.
Brent's daughter, Poppy Brent-Berkus, was born on March 23, 2015 and their son, Oskar Michael Brent-Berkus, followed on March 26, 2018. Both children were born by different egg donors and surrogates contracted through Growing Generations, and neither Brent nor Berkus have publicly disclosed who the biological parents of their children are.
In December 2018, Brent and Berkus listed their 8,500-square-foot Los Angeles home where they had planned to “put down roots” for $13.8 million. The 1920s Mediterranean-style home that the couple remodeled over a two-year period sold for $11.35 million. In 2019, they moved back to Manhattan
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.
References
External links
Official website
Jeremiah Brent Design
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Living people
1984 births
American interior designers
American LGBT artists
American LGBT broadcasters
American LGBT entertainers
American television personalities
LGBT designers
LGBT people from California
People from Modesto, California