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 due to sudden unexpected death in 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.