Jeremiah OC Jahi is an Atlanta born, but Brooklyn nurtured Black American, award winning actor, photographer, filmmaker, playwright and creative writer based in Los Angeles. He is an honorably discharged U. S. Marine Corps war veteran. He completed with honors his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The City University of New York with majors in Theater, Africana Studies, Political Science and Sociology. Jeremiah has studied filmmaking as a continuing education student at The School Of Visual Arts in New York City, creative writing at Fordham University as a part of their writing program for Veterans, and playwriting at the Echo Theater Company in Los Angeles. In May 2023, Jeremiah completed an AA degree in Photography and most recently in 2024, he completed six AA’s in Directing, Producing, Screenwriting, Visual Effects, Cinema Theory, Post Production and an AS degree in Film, Television, & Electronic Media all at Los Angeles Valley College.
As a trained theater actor he has performed on various stages across the country including a tour with the Tyler Perry and TD Jakes play Woman Thou Art Loosed. On television he has performed on various television shows including a recurring principle role as Dr. Huffman on The Young & The Restless, Don Cornelius in the Hulu limited series MIKE, an various roles on the soap operas As The World Turns, All My Children, and recurred on One Life To Live. Currently he can be seen on Amazon Prime in the hit independent films WADE IN THE WATER and BUTT BOY, then in the soon to be released film DETAINED staring Laz Alonso and Abbie Cornish, THE END OF NOWHERE from acclaimed director/writer Peter Mattei, ALI 1978: The Butterfly’s Last Dance with Obba Babatunde. One of his greatest highlights was staring opposite Ice Cube in 2017 in his music video for his song Good Cop, Bad Cop. Jeremiah has acted in various commercials, shorts and independent film past and present. Many are in the can and will be released soon.
He has won numerous film and photography festival awards for his work as an actor, photographer and writer/ director. He is a alumni fellow of the year long WGA WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: Veterans Writers Project Program in film and television (2019-2020), the Veterans Make Movies program at LACMA in Los Angeles, and an alumni fellow of the Geffen Playhouse Writing and Performance ten week workshop for Veterans in Los Angeles (2023).
Jeremiah is in development on several film projects (shorts and features) with filming slated on two projects in early 2025.
Lastly, he is a Brother of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and a devout Christ follower.