Mika Boorem
About
Biography
Biography
Mika Boorem started acting at a very early age in local Arizona theater productions in Tucson before her family moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. It was there that the child actor's career began to take off. She got steady work on both film and television from the get-go. She played young girls in several big films, including "Jack Frost," "Mighty Joe Young," the Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" (she was Mel Gibson's daughter), the James Patterson thriller "Along Came a Spider," and the adaptation of Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis" with Anthony Hopkins. On television she played Tom Arnold's daughter on his short-lived comedic vehicle "The Tom Show" and has been seen in recurring roles on "Touched by an Angel" and "Dawson's Creek," for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination. Her teens have seen her grow into alluring roles in such fare as the surf movie "Blue Crush," "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," and "Sleepover." Boorem has also appeared in a music video for David Cook's "Light On."
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Life Events
1997
TV-movie debut in "A Walton Easter" (CBS)
1997
Feature film debut as a backwoods girl in "The Education of Little Tree"
1997
TV series debut as Tom Arnold's daughter on "The Tom Show" (The WB)
1998
Portrayed Charlize Theron's character as a child in "Mighty Joe Young"
1998
Co-starred in the film "Jack Frost"
1998
Played the title character as child in an episode of Fox's "Ally McBeal"
2000
Cast as Mel Gibson's daughter in "The Patriot"
2001
Portrayed the youthful incarnation of lead character of Dorothy (essayed by Drew Barrymore as an adult) in "Riding in Cars With Boys"
2001
Essayed the kidnap victim in the thriller "Along Came a Spider"; first screen pairing with fellow child actor Anton Yelchin
2001
Reteamed with Yelchin in "Hearts in Atlantis", based on the Stephen King book
2002
Played Penny Chadwick in the summer hit "Blue Crush"
2004
Played the younger sister in the feature "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights"
2004
Starred in the teen comedy "Sleepover" about an all-night scavenger hunt
Family
