Derrick Oscar

Derrick Gregory Oscar (born May 6, 1992) is an American television personality and model, best known for starring in the x|The CW reality show California Dreaming.

Early life
Oscar was born in x|Louisville, Kentucky to Thomas Oscar and Marsha Lange. His father works in sales, while his mother is a middle school history teacher. He is of x|Portuguese, x|German, and x|Anglo-American descent through his father, and German descent through his mother.

Oscar was raised in a middle-class family with one older sister: Caroline. Oscar attended x|J. Graham Brown School, and graduated in 2010. After graduating, he began studying business at the x|University of Louisville, graduating in 2014. While a college student, Oscar is a member of the fraternity x|Phi Kappa Tau (ΦΚΤ). After his graduation, he moved to x|Los Angeles to begin a modeling career.

Career
Oscar began modeling semi-professionally while a college student, and would do so for extra money. While on vacation in x|Los Angeles in 2014, he was scouted by a modeling scout and offered a contract with an agency. After graduating that year, he moved from Kentucky to Los Angeles to begin modeling professionally in both print and runway work. He has walked runways in Los Angeles, x|New York, x|Toronto, x|Chicago, and x|London. He later began a career as a television personality, being cast on the x|The CW reality series California Dreaming.

Personal life
Oscar resides in x|West Hollywood, California. He was raised a member of the x|Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Oscar is partially fluent in the x|German language, after taking classes in German from ages eight to twenty-one, and was spoken to in German by his great-grandparents as a child.