JERMELLE SIMON is an American actor was born in Florence, South California, who is best known for The Upshaws, an American television sitcom created by Regina Y. Hicks and Wanda Sykes. Simon plays “Bernard Upshaw Jr.” Bennie and Regina’s eldest child and only son together. He has a strained relationship with his father, who wasn’t there for him. His character came out as gay in Season 1.
His dad works at a shipyard, and his mother is a nurse. He was brought up alongside his two brothers named Jermol Simon and Jermaine Frost. The popular actor attended Norfolk State University.
Simon and content creator/influencer Obio Jones got engaged in April 2025.