Mykal-Michelle Harris is about to become your fave new TV character!
In new series Mixed-ish, the seven-year-old actress stars as Santamonica Johnson, the younger sister of Rainbow “Bow” Johnson, who grows up to be a reality star.
The premiere episode focuses on a young Rainbow Johnson and recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ’80s. Their experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one’s own identity when the rest of the world can’t decide where you belong.
In flagship series, black-ish, Santamonica is played by Rashida Jones.
You can get to know Mykal-Michelle even better with with our 10 Fun Facts about the young star, ahead of the premiere of Mixed-ish TONIGHT on ABC!
Check them out below:
- I have three siblings one sister and two brothers
- My favorite food is pizza —New York style pizza to be exact
- I can’t stand brussels sprouts —not even with bacon
- My favorite colors are pink and green
- I want to be a film and television director when I grow up
- My favorite movie is Black Panther
- I want a pet but my mom won’t let me get one
- When I’m at work I never want to go home because I enjoy my job so very much
- I am the little girl who did the “Like Serena Williams†video that went everywhere!
- I just learned to whistle but I can’t blow bubbles with gum yet.
Tune into Mixed-ish, premiering TONIGHT, September 24th @ 9PM ET/PT on ABC.
Chloe x Halle and Francia Raisa get in a group photo with Mariah Carey at the POPSUGAR X ABC: Embrace Your Ish Party held at Goya Studios on Tuesday (September 17) in Los Angeles.
The grown-ish ladies blended together with stars from all three ish shows for one fun night together.
Also in attendance were grown-ish guys Trevor Jackson, Jordan Buhat, and Diggy Simmons, black-ish‘s Tracee Ellis Ross, Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Miles Brown, Marcus Scribner, Laurence Fishburne, and Peter Mackenzie, and from the newest in the ish universe, the cast of mixed-ish, Arica Himmel, Ethan William Childress, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Tika Sumpter, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gary Cole, and Christina Anthony.
At the event, the theme song for mixed-ish was unveiled, which is sung by Mariah. Check it out on Just Jared!
The series premiere of mixed-ish is NEXT Tuesday (September 24) at 9pm ET, followed by the season six premiere of black-ish at 9:30pm on ABC. grown-ish returns for season three in winter 2020.
FYI: Marsai is wearing Maje. Tracee is wearing a Christopher John Rogers dress with Retrouvaà jewelry and Andrea Wazen shoes. Tika is wearing Zuhair Murad.
Arica Himmel is opening up about the message she wants viewers to take away from her new show mixed-ish.
The actress stepped out for the show’s PaleyFest Fall TV Previews event on Saturday (September 14) at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif.
She was also joined by her co-star Mykal-Michelle Harris and Ethan William Childress
During the event, Arica explained how she wants to help people with the show.
“I want people to feel like they’ve been helped one by one by the show. I want people to think wow…watching the show has steered me in the right direction, its made me feel like I’m not alone. I’m unique. I’m special,” Arica said while speaking on the panel.
mixed-ish premieres on September 24th on ABC.
Trevor Jackson lifts his arm up way high to get the greatest pic of all with all the -ish casts at the 2019 D23 Expo in Anaheim, Calif., over the weekend.
The grown-ish star met up with his co-stars Yara Shahidi, Francia Raisa, Jordan Buhat, Diggy Simmons, and Chloe and Halle Bailey for the massive panel, including the stars of black-ish, and the newest show, mixed-ish.
Mixed-ish stars Arica Himmel, Mykal-Michelle Harris and Ethan Williams Childress got to join the fam at the Disney conference along with Miles Brown and many more.
You can check out all the group pics inside the gallery now!
