Curiosidades

As a youth appeared in a Kellogg's Corn Flakes commercial as well as several others.

His first job in Hollywood was as a child in a Marx Toys commercial.

His first child, Jacob, was born in 2003 and his daughter, Makenna, was born in 2006.

Derrel is the recipient of the 2007 New York Short Film Festival Best Actor award for his work in the film "Wither" Derrel was also awarded the West Valley Theatre Guild Award for his role as Cole Porter in the musical "Red Hot & Cole".

In October 1995 played in "The Subject was Roses" at the Sherman Oaks Whitefire Theater alongside real-life father Arthur Bernard ("Star Trek", "Rich Man, Poor Man") and mother Madgel Dean ("Psych-Out", "Gunsmoke", "Cheers").

Directed "An Evening of Cabaret with The Music of Michael Antin" on July 28, 2016, at Valley Beth Shalom where he in the past was a drama instructor for 15 years.

He joined the comedy troupe Comic Fetus and starred in "Comic Fetus & The Holy Snail" which ran in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2003.

Mentioned in the book "Love Hunger: A Harrowing Journey from Sexual Addiction to True Fulfillment" By David Kyle Foster in Chapter 12 entitled, "Friends and Lovers", published on May 13, 2014.

Had a son, Dexter Morgan, with his second wife, Reed, on December 17, 2021.