May 31, 2026

Who Is Jemma Durrant? ‘Calabasas Confidential’ Cast Member Explained

Amanda Orlando

She won “Biggest Ego” in the high school yearbook and came back to Calabasas ready to prove that wrong — then Dylan Wolf walked in with a cowboy hat.

Who Is Jemma Durrant?

Jemma Durrant is 23 years old and returns to Calabasas fresh out of college, stepping into the reality TV spotlight for the first time. She grew up in Calabasas, attended Calabasas High School alongside several of her future castmates, and came back for the summer with the kind of reputation that follows you whether you built it or not. She admits there are “too many rumors to keep up with” about her.

She was born in South Africa, and Netflix noted on social media that she often tells people on nights out that she is a “South African princess.” Her high school yearbook crowned her with “Biggest Ego” — a superlative she finds funny enough to pull out in front of the cameras.

Who Are Jemma Durant’s Parents?

Jemma’s father is Brett Durrant, who has served as CEO of Durrant International, Inc. for more than 16 years. Her mother is Athene Durrant. The family’s South African roots come up early in the season and are part of what makes Jemma’s Calabasas upbringing feel distinct from the nepo-baby contingent in the cast.

What Does Jemma Durrant Do?

After studying advertising at the University of Oregon, Jemma returns to Calabasas to live with her parents and work as a marketing coordinator for Kelly+Partners Group Holdings — a promotion she scores during the first season. She has 28,500 followers on Instagram and

over 366,000 on TikTok.

Jemma Durrant’s Social Media

Jemma is on Instagram and TikTok at @jemmadurrant.

Jemma Durrant’s Drama on ‘Calabasas Confidential’

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Jemma is the emotional center of Season 1, and almost all of it runs through Dylan Wolf. Their high school relationship — which Dylan refuses to call a relationship at all — left a mark she is still working through when the show begins. She opens up in Episode 1 about losing her virginity to him, the humiliation that followed the next day at school, and the way he made her feel small while she kept coming back. She tells the cameras that Dylan took her spark, and that going to college was how she got it back.

The tension compounds when Dylan arrives at her own party in Episode 1 with Emma Medrano — a girl Jemma already has bad blood with over Dylan’s history. Their face-off at the party is one of the season’s first major confrontations, and it ends without resolution. Jemma’s read on Emma is that she wants to escalate, not solve things. Emma’s read on Jemma is the opposite.

By Episode 2, the complications deepen. Suede Brooks — one of Jemma’s newer friends — starts gravitating toward Dylan at Kimora’s party. Jemma clocks it from across the room but chooses to trust Suede. That trust gets tested across Episode 3, when a TikTok surfaces and a beach day makes the dynamic hard to ignore. Suede sitting between Dylan’s legs on the sand while Jemma watches from across the group is the season’s sharpest image of what it costs to be the person who always sees it coming.

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Episode 3 also produces the line that defines Jemma’s entire arc: “He didn’t break my heart. He literally tore me apart. I dyed my hair like four different colors in the span of like three months just so I could feel pretty.” And then, immediately after: “If he’s changed, where the fuck is my apology?”

By Episode 4, she’s made a decision. She tells Nicole and Kimora she wants to talk to Dylan — not to relitigate, not to perform, but to get to the root of whether he’s doing this deliberately. She wants to dead the narrative that she’s obsessed with him. She wants her story back.

Episode 6 gives her something she didn’t expect. Nolan — a guy with years of sexual tension between them that never went anywhere — cooks her ribs. Fifteen hours overnight. He has martinis ready when she walks in. She tells the cameras she felt like she didn’t deserve it, like someone was going to jump out and tell her it was a joke. “I have this idea in my head where no guy will ever want to do this for you, you’re not worth that.” He asks her to text when she gets home.

She tells the cameras that date healed a little part of her. Dating is normal. You’re allowed to like a guy. You’re allowed to pursue a guy. It was her first step in doing that.

The balcony conversation with Dylan at the beach house finale is the season’s payoff. She tells him it’s hard for her to hate him. She had so much love for him. He was the first person she ever felt that thin line between hate and love for and she doesn’t know how to handle it. He tells her she was a victim of his own mental warfare and that he’s truly sorry. She thanks him. She says she thinks she’s been holding onto a version of him that doesn’t exist anymore. She wants to start fresh as friends. She introduces herself as Jemma. He introduces himself as Malibu’s Cowboy. They hug.

She walks back out and announces to the group: “The war is over.”

What Does Jemma Durrant Bring to ‘Calabasas Confidential’?

Jemma is what happens when a person is funny, self-aware, and still not quite over something. She can laugh at her own yearbook superlative and throw a pillow in the next episode. She’s loyal to a fault, reactive when she feels betrayed, and compelling to watch because the hurt underneath the humor is always close to the surface. She is not the villain of this show — but she is the gravitational center of it.

Calabasas Confidential Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.

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