Her grandfather got to Calabasas before the Kardashians did. She came back from college ready to remind everyone.
Who Is Emma Medrano?
Emma Medrano is a 22-year-old Calabasas High School graduate who returned to Calabasas after earning a business administration degree from Moorpark College. She is one of the cast members who does not come with a famous last name, but she comes with something she considers just as significant: roots.
Emma describes her high school self as someone she would now call very put-together, and says she’d agree with that assessment. She is back in Calabasas with a clear sense of who she is, even if the group she is re-entering does not quite know what to do with her yet.
Who Is Emma Medrano’s Family?
Emma introduces her family’s story early in Episode 1, and it is one of the more distinct backstories in the cast. Her grandfather came to Calabasas in the 1980s — long before the neighborhood became shorthand for celebrity excess. She tells the cameras, “The Medranos are a Calabasas legacy. We were here before the Kardashians, and we like to own that.” Her grandfather’s running joke is that the Kardashians followed him wherever he went, and that he is the real face of Calabasas.
It is a funny bit, but it also frames how Emma sees herself in the group — not as someone trying to break in, but as someone who was always there.
What Does Emma Medrano Do?
Emma works as a customer relations manager at Mercedes-Benz of Calabasas, where she manages customer relations, social media presence, and event coordination, while also supporting general management with day-to-day operations. She has over 80,000 TikTok followers and, per her Netflix bio, has plans to launch a swimwear line.
Emma Medrano’s Drama on ‘Calabasas Confidential‘
Emma walks into the season already carrying baggage with Jemma Durrant — and then makes it worse by showing up to Jemma’s own party with Dylan Wolf in tow. From Jemma’s perspective, that entrance reads as deliberate. From Emma’s, she is simply showing up with a friend and refusing to shrink herself around someone else’s unresolved feelings about a guy.
Their face-off later that night is the season’s first real confrontation. Emma tells Jemma directly that she has heard plenty of things about her over the years and never chose to spread them. Jemma counters that the prank call accusation is small compared to what Emma has said about her. They go in circles and leave the conversation unsettled.
By Episode 2, Emma begins to pull closer to Emilie Nelson — two women who came into the summer feeling like outsiders to different parts of the group, and who find some common ground in that.
On their hike together, in Episode 2, Dylan reveals how he actually sees Jemma: as someone who was on the outside in high school and is now coming back for the head of those who were not. Emma’s response — that no woman should be talked about that way — is one of the more quietly revealing moments of her character in the early season. She has her own complicated feelings about Jemma, but she is not interested in tearing her down behind her back.
Emma Medrano’s Social Media
Emma is on TikTok and Instagram. Her Instagram handle is @eemmamedrano. Her TikTok is @emmamedrano.
What Does Emma Medrano Bring to ‘Calabasas Confidential’?
Emma came back to Calabasas with a polished self-image and a firm belief that high school is behind her. The problem is that the people she went to high school with remember it differently. While Emma frames herself as someone who never held grudges and never went after anyone, the rest of the group’s account of who she was back then doesn’t quite match that narrative. She is confident, composed, and genuinely hard to read — which makes her either the most self-aware person in the room or the least.
Calabasas Confidential Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.
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