Biography
Cameron Boyce was born and raised in Los Angeles, which made his childhood break into acting easy and accessible. At the age of 9 in 2008, Boyce appeared in a variety of projects, first starting with a role in the Panic! at the Disco music video "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" before making his film debut in a pair of movies, the horror flick "Mirrors" (2008) and the Shia LaBeouf-starring "Eagle Eye" (2008). He also began a recurring role on "General Hospital: Night Shift" (Soapnet 2007-08) that spanned seven episodes on the short-lived spinoff. While Boyce continued to pursue acting, even appearing as Adam Sandler's son in the comedy "Grown Ups" (2010), he branched out into dancing, which led to appearances on "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC 2005- ). By 2011, Boyce started to enter the sphere of the Disney Channel, with his first role on the network being a guest appearance on "Good Luck Charlie" (Disney Channel 2010-14). That led almost directly to his starring role as Luke Ross on "Jessie" (Disney Channel 2011-15). The show lasted nearly 100 episodes as Boyce essentially spent his formative years appearing in it. During that same time period, voice acting added another notch in Boyce' performance belt. Most notably, he voiced the titular character Jake on "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" (Disney Junior 2011-16) for the show's second and third seasons. By 2015, his time on "Jessie" was done and Boyce was no longer a precocious child actor. His next step stayed within the Disney family as he appeared as Cruella de Vil's son Carlos in the made-for-TV movie "Descendants" (2015). He reprised the role multiple times, first in a series of TV shorts in "Descendants: Wicked World" (Disney Channel 2015-17) and then in "Descendants 2" (2017) and "Descendants 3" (2019). Before the last movie premiered, Boyce passed away due to complications of an epileptic seizure at the age of 20 in July 2019. He had completed several other projects before passing away that were released posthumously, including Kathryn Hahn-starring comedy "Mrs. Fletcher" (HBO 2019- ) and the indie drama "Runt" (2019).
