Tyler Sanders, Just Add Magic: Mystery City Star, Dies At 18
Up-and-coming child actor Tyler Sanders has passed away at the age of 18. Sanders was born on February 25, 2004, and has been acting since 2015. Despite his short career, he has amassed a wide variety of credits, though he began with smaller projects like the Christian series JLW Academy and a series of short films. Quickly he made his way into bigger titles, appearing in flashbacks as the young Jake Otto (Sam Underwood) in an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead prequel series Fear the Walking Dead during season 3 in 2018. Since then, he has also appeared on episodes of The Rookie and 9-1-1: Lone Star.
His biggest role was joining the main cast of Just Add Magic: Mystery City, a Prime Video spinoff of their series Just Add Magic, which adapts the Cindy Callaghan children's novels of the same name about a group of friends finding a magical cookbook. Mystery City, which follows a group of new Protectors racing to find an important recipe, premiered on the streaming platform in January 2020, featuring Sanders reprising the role of Leo, a character he had originated in a 2019 episode of Just Add Magic alongside his co-stars Jolie Hoang-Rappaport as Zoe, and Jenna Qureshi as Ish. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the performance in 2021.
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Per Deadline, Sanders passed away in his home at the age of 18. The news was confirmed by his agent, Pedro Tapia. There are no further details at this time, either about the cause or planned funeral arrangements, but the actor's death is currently under investigation.
Sanders was involved in two projects that are reported to be in post-production, the status of which currently remains unknown. One,
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