Jaremi Lee Carey

Jaremi Lee Carey (born Jeremy Lee Carey; October 10, 1985) is an American actor, streamer, singer, cosplay artist, and former drag performer who performed under the name Phi Phi O'Hara. In the O'Hara persona, Carey came to international attention as a runner-up on the 4th season of RuPaul's Drag Race and placing 7th on the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars.

Early life Carey was born to Rickey Lee Carey and Rhonda Lynn Malott on October 10, 1985, in San Antonio, Texas. He is of Filipino and Portuguese descent.

Career Carey as Phi Phi O'Hara was announced as one of the thirteen contestants for RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 on November 13, 2011. He achieved a runner-up position. In 2012, Carey was invited back as a contestant on All Stars 1, but declined to participate in the competition for personal reasons. He came back for All Stars 2 in 2016 and initially made it to the top five, but after the return of two previously eliminated contestants, Alyssa Edwards and Tatianna in the fifth episode, he placed seventh overall after being eliminated by them. He has been featured in music videos for "Stranger" by Chris Malinchak, "Battle Axe" by Sharon Needles, "Ratchet Christmas" by Jiggly Caliente, and "I Call Shade" by Trinity the Tuck.

Carey made news headlines across the web with a project called "365 Days of Drag". His original goal was to post one photo in drag every day of 2016 (except for February 29, since it was a leap year). Carey successfully completed all 365 looks, posting the final look on January 1, 2017. The final outfit was a gown made of hundreds of printed photographs that featured all of the looks from the series. In 2017, Carey organized a drag benefit show to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, which featured other Drag Race alumni. The event took place on November 6, 2017, in Minneapolis and raised over $80,000. In October 2019, Carey successfully completed another photo series called "31 Days of Wizardry". Each day he transformed himself into a different character from the Harry Potter universe.

As of April 2025, Carey is a co-chair of national organization Drag Out the Vote, which works with drag performers to promote voting among the LGBT community.

Carey has been releasing music as Phi Phi O'Hara since 2014, but he started performing under his real name as well in 2015. His debut album Fever Heart was released on October 14, 2016. He is featured in the first three volumes of the Christmas Queens albums with "O Come, All Ye Faithful" (2017), "Fireside" (2016), and "Naughty or Nice" (2015). In 2018, Carey recorded a duet with Jiggly Caliente for her album T.H.O.T. Process called "Beat of My City".

In 2020, Jaremi joined the Twitch Community as an LGBT+ Gameplayer. There he plays games like Dead by Daylight, Animal Crossing, Pokémon, Sims, Overwatch, or Just Chats with his fans. His previous username was ThePocketGay, but in August 2020 he changed his Twitter and Twitch usernames to JustJaremi and tweeted that "There is no more Phi Phi <3".

Carey is a certified optician.

Personal life In 2017, Carey married his longtime boyfriend Mikhael Ortega.

Filmography Film

Television

Theatre Year Title Role Theatre 2016 The Rocky Horror Show Columbia Josephine Theatre 2019 Femlins Greta Stripe Castro Theatre

Web series

Music videos

Discography

Albums

Singles As lead artist YearTitle2014"Bitchy" 2015"Queen of Clubs" "Take Control" 2016"Play" "All Mine"

As featured artist YearTitleAlbum2015"GAG" (Jonathan Hernandez feat. Jaremi Carey & Cory Wade)non-album single2018"Beat of My City"(Jiggly Caliente feat. Jaremi Carey)T.H.O.T. Process