About Cameron Boyce
Cameron Mica Boyce (May 28, 1999 – July 6, 2019) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the 2008 films Mirrors and Eagle Eye, along with the comedy film Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel. His first starring role was Luke Ross on the Disney Channel comedy series Jessie (2011–2015). Continuing to work with Disney, Boyce achieved further prominence as Carlos de Vil, one of the title characters in the musical fantasy Descendants franchise, which included three television films (2015–2019). He also starred as the title character Jake in the Disney Junior series Jake and the Never Land Pirates (2012–2014) and the lead character Conor in Disney XD's Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything (2015–2017). He died on July 6, 2019, at the age of 20 due to complications from epilepsy, less than a month prior to the premiere of Descendants 3. Posthumously, he also headlined the thriller film Runt (2020) and was a series regular on the Amazon Prime Video supernatural thriller Paradise City (2021) as Simon Ostergaard. Following Boyce's death in 2019, the Cameron Boyce Foundation, a nonprofit organization was founded in Los Angeles through Network for Good. His paternal grandmother, Jo Ann Boyce (née Allen), was one of the Clinton Twelve, the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States, in 1956, as ordered by Brown v. Boyce also worked closely with It's On Us, a social movement created to raise awareness and fight against sexual assault on college campuses for both men and women.
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