Jonathan Scott Biography

Jonathan Scott as born in 1978 in British Columbia, Canada. Today, Jonathan is best known as one of the stars of the hit HGTV series Property Brothers, a role he shares with his brother Drew, but long before his rise to fame, Jonathan and his brother honed their entertainment skills through local community theater and their high school comedy troupe.

Highly influenced by his father, who worked as an assistant director and actor, Jonathan exhibited both a natural flair for both entertainment and entrepreneurialism, a formula which would serve him well down the line. After graduating from the University of Calgary with a degree in business, Jonathan spent a number of years producing and promoting television shows, and even served on the executive board for ACTRA for a few years.

In 2004, Jonathan teamed up with his brother Drew to established Scott Real Estate and Scott Brothers Entertainment, two business outlets through which they could pursue their professional interest of digital media production and real estate. For a number of years, Jonathan and Drew bounced between producing digital spots for clients and flipping houses, until in 2000 they shot their own pilot pitch for HGTV. The rest, as they say, is history.

Of course, HGTV saw the potential in the show and picked it up. Property Brothers aired for the first time in 2011, and has led to a number of spin-offs: Buying and Selling (2012 to present), Brother vs. Brother (2013 to present), and Property Brothers: At Home (which aired in 2014.) They also created the limited series Property Brothers: At Home on the Ranch, which features the brothers’ renovation of a Rocky Mountain estate for family friends in Alberta.

Most recently, Drew and Jonathan Scott launched Scott Living, their first furniture line, in 2015 via QVC. They also published the book Dream Home, which debuted in the top ten on the New York Times best sellers list upon its release in 2016 and was followed by the 2017 memoir, It Takes Two: Our Story.