Most people recognize Reagan Gomez-Preston from her acting career. But fewer know much about her daughter, Scarlett Annette Turrentine — a young woman who has quietly stepped into her own life well outside the spotlight of Hollywood.
This article covers who Scarlett is, what confirmed public records show about her, the careers and relationship of her parents, and how her family story fits together. It sticks to verified facts and avoids speculation about her private life.
Who Is Scarlett Annette Turrentine?
Scarlett Annette Turrentine is the daughter of actress Reagan Gomez-Preston and model, producer, and actor DeWayne Turrentine Jr. She was born in California in May 2007. Different sources list her birth date as either May 13 or May 14 — IMDb cites May 13, while Wikipedia’s entry on the music group Quo and Astrodatabank both cite May 14. The one-day difference has never been publicly clarified, so it’s fair to say she was born in mid-May 2007 without declaring one date absolute.
She is not a public figure in her own right. She hasn’t pursued acting, music, or any entertainment career. Most online mentions of her name appear in family biography sections tied to her parents’ profiles.
Scarlett has one younger sibling: a brother named Tyger Attila Turrentine, born April 2, 2011. Together, they make up the two children of Reagan and DeWayne’s long-running marriage.
Reagan Gomez-Preston — Her Mother’s Career and Public Profile
Reagan Gomez-Preston was born on April 24, 1980, in Detroit, Michigan. She began her entertainment career as a teenager and built a steady presence in both television and voice acting over the years.
She is probably best known for playing Zaria Peterson on the 1990s sitcom The Parent ‘Hood. She also did notable voice work on the animated series The Cleveland Show, along with other TV and film credits that have kept her working consistently in the industry.
Reagan’s parents are Dr. Bennett Preston and Cheryl Gomez. That background places Scarlett within a family that blends both academic and entertainment roots — a detail that adds a little texture to how the family is understood publicly.
Reagan has maintained a relatively low-key personal life compared to many actors of her generation. She’s spoken openly about her family in interviews over the years, but she and DeWayne have largely kept their children’s lives out of the media.
DeWayne Turrentine Jr. — Her Father’s Background
DeWayne Turrentine Jr. is an American model, producer, and actor. He’s less widely known than Reagan, but he has his own documented history in entertainment.
In the 1990s, DeWayne was part of a short-lived hip-hop duo called Quo, alongside choreographer and performer Wade Robson. The group operated under a label connected to Michael Jackson. Quo didn’t have a long run, but it placed DeWayne in professional entertainment circles at a young age.
After Quo, he transitioned into modeling and production work, with occasional acting roles along the way. His path through music, modeling, and production makes Scarlett’s choice to pursue college athletics — rather than entertainment — a noticeable contrast, though not a surprising one for someone who grew up as the child of industry professionals rather than as a performer herself.
Reagan and DeWayne’s Relationship and Family Timeline
Reagan and DeWayne have one of the longer-standing relationships in their entertainment circle. According to Astrodatabank, they began dating around 1995, which would have been their mid-teens. They married on November 10, 1999 — a commitment made before either had reached their mid-twenties.
Here’s a simple timeline of their family milestones:
- ~1995: Reagan and DeWayne begin dating
- November 10, 1999: They marry
- May 2007: Scarlett Annette Turrentine is born (exact date disputed by one day across sources)
- April 2, 2011: Tyger Attila Turrentine is born
Scarlett arrived roughly eight years into the marriage, and Tyger followed about four years after her. By most accounts, the family has stayed together and maintained a relatively private household compared to many celebrity families.
It’s worth noting that Reagan and DeWayne’s long relationship — from teenage years through marriage and parenthood — is itself somewhat unusual in Hollywood terms. Most public information about them as a couple focuses on confirmed milestones rather than any personal drama.
Scarlett’s Life Today — College Soccer at Hawaii Pacific University
The most current and concrete public information about Scarlett comes from an athletic roster, not a red carpet. She appears on the Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) women’s soccer roster as a forward. HPU is a private university in Honolulu, Hawaii, and its athletics program competes at the NCAA Division II level.
Her HPU profile lists her hometown as Rancho Cucamonga, California, which aligns with the California birth location noted in other sources. She appears to have joined the program around the 2025 season as a freshman.
The roster bio includes some light personal notes — she enjoys drawing and writing, and lists favorite foods and films — the kind of detail that university athletics pages routinely collect. These notes are harmless background color, but they don’t tell us much beyond the fact that she’s a regular college student with ordinary interests.
What the HPU listing does confirm is meaningful: Scarlett is not pursuing a career in entertainment. She’s doing what many young adults do — playing a sport she presumably loves, attending university, and building a life on her own terms.
Why the Sports Roster Matters as a Public Record
It might seem odd that a university athletics page is the primary independent source of information about Scarlett. But that’s actually common for children of celebrities who don’t seek public attention themselves.
A sports roster functions as a modern public record in a limited way. It confirms a name, a position, a location, and a year. In Scarlett’s case, it also connects the dots between the teenager listed in her parents’ biographies and a real, currently active young adult — the same person, confirmed through consistent details like her name, age, and state of origin.
For people curious about celebrity children, this kind of low-key confirmation is often all that exists publicly, and it’s a good reminder that being born into a recognizable family doesn’t automatically make someone a public figure.
How Public Records Have Documented Scarlett’s Name
One small but interesting footnote: the baby name site Nameberry uses “Scarlett Annette Turrentine (b. 2007), daughter of actress Reagan Gomez-Preston and model DeWayne Turrentine,” as a real-world example of the name Scarlett in use. It’s a neutral reference, but it shows how personal names can become part of the public record through completely mundane channels — not tabloids or paparazzi, just a name database doing its job.
Genealogy sites and birth-record aggregators similarly list her full name alongside her parents and sibling, mainly because her parents are public figures whose family details are part of their documented biographies. None of this implies Scarlett sought any public attention — it’s simply how information flows when parents are in the public eye.
For broader profiles on public figures and the families connected to them, resources like Inside Business Mag offer grounded, factual coverage without tipping into speculation.
A Family of Four, Mostly Out of the Headlines
Put it all together, and the picture of Scarlett Annette Turrentine is a fairly clear one — even if the details are limited.
She was born in California in May 2007 to two parents with real histories in American entertainment. Her mother built a steady acting career starting in the 1990s. Her father had an early run in music before moving into modeling and production. They’ve been together since their teenage years and raised two children with a noticeably private approach to family life.
Scarlett herself has taken a path that looks more like most people’s lives than her parents’ — studying at a university in Hawaii and playing college soccer as a forward. There are no documented interviews, no entertainment credits, and no public social media presence tied to her name in confirmed sources.
That’s not a gap to fill with guesswork. It’s simply where the public record ends — and where her private life, reasonably, begins.