
Age: 26
female
The eldest of three children, Nikki was born and raised in San Diego, California. She started singing and dancing at the age of 5 and by the time she was 10, made her professional stage debut playing a Little Who in Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. She went on to play several other roles in different musicals until she landed her biggest one, the title role in the Page-To-Stage workshop production of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's new musical The Nightingale at the La Jolla Playhouse. The role opened up new doors for Nikki, leading her to New York to sign with an NY agent and then auditioning for several Broadway Musicals reaching final callbacks for Lavender in Matilda the Musical in 2013. But after growing too tall for kid roles but not old enough for older roles in Broadway, she then shifted her focus on Hollywood. In 2014, she booked her first feature film playing a cop's daughter in Driving While Black (2015). In late 2015, she booked her first TV show guest starring in season 2 of Disney's K.C. Undercover (2015) playing the recurring role of Akina. . In 2016, she booked another guest starring role in season 3 of TNT's The Last Ship (2014) playing Malaya and a large co-starring role in season 3 of CBS' Scorpion (2014) as Patty Logan. In early 2017, she reached another milestone by booking her first voiceover roles on an animated pilot/short and a new animated series on a leading animation network. Later the same year, she got promoted to recurring cast in season 4 of CBS' Scorpion (2014) reprising her role as Patty Logan. When not on a theatre stage or in front of a camera, Nikki enjoys performing and is actually an alumna of the Hollywood Launch Academy, a triple threat talent training program geared toward launching the next generation of triple threat performers in L.A. She has performed in various venues in Hollywood/LA and San Diego, and is a regular performer for the Tunes For Tots of Southern California to benefit various charitable organizations. Her passion for giving back to the community has also led her to perform at various charity events/concerts that benefit the youth community in particular such as Music4Education by Pencils For Promises, Heart of a Child by Resounding Joy, and Songs For Shelter by SD Youth Services and Toussaint Academy. Nikki is mostly preoccupied with life after high school but in her spare time, she enjoys singing, dancing, doing musical theatre, spending time with her brother and sister, and watching her favorite TV shows Sherlock, Dr. Who, Supernatural, Once Upon A Time to name a few. But when needing an alone time, she finds solace in knitting, crocheting, sewing, and doing pretty much any arts & crafts. Ask her why and she'll tell you she's a Grandma at heart!

Nikki Castillo

Lily Pak
for Lily Pak in Harold and the Purple Crayon (TL-JRA)
Suggested by jonathanahnberg2

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha (in his live-action feature-length directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Guion, Michael Handelman, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Ringo Starr, Zooey Deschanel and Jon Lovitz, This film takes place in the real life world of Rhode Island where fictional and cartoon characters live alongside real humans. In the film, After he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life. Later, Reformed chihuahua and Cartoon All-Star member Jonathan temporarily relocates his friends the Cartoon All-Stars to the real world when his old rival Gary Natwick seeks revenge. Meanwhile, Lyla and her friends, are augmented with superpowers from the Cartoon All-Star League (CASL), forming a superhero initiative known as the Super Loopsters.