{"id":969416,"date":"2026-11-13T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/969416\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:48:12","slug":"christian-cousins-dead-former-child-actor-of-kindergarten-cop-was-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/969416\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Cousins Dead: Former Child Actor Of ‘Kindergarten Cop’ Was 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChristian Cousins<\/a>, the former child actor who, along with his twin brother Joseph, starred in the 1990 film Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Kindergarten Cop<\/a>, died last month following a battle with liver disease. He was 43.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis death was announced by his half-brother, Jonas Roeser, on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to share that my brother, Christian Cousins, has passed away,\u201d Roeser wrote on October 22. \u201cChristian and his twin brother, Joseph \u2018Joey\u2019 Cousins, are my brothers through my biological father. They grew up in California while I was in Washington and I didn\u2019t get to know them until I was in college. Before that, I grew up watching them on television in Knots Landing<\/a> and the lead role of Dominic in Kindergarten Cop with Arnold Schwarzenegger. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut those roles are only a small part of how I\u2019ll remember Christian,\u201d Roeser continued. \u201cHe was a character, full of passion and energy, with big stories and even bigger dreams. Christian had been very sick with liver disease. It brings me comfort to believe he is now in heaven with his mother, free from the pain he was carrying. Rest easy, Christian. I hope your soul is at rest and that you\u2019ve found peace. You are my brother and you will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to their Kindergarten Cop role, Christian and twin brother Joseph, who were born March 17, 1983, in Orange County, California, shared the roles of Bobby Gibson Ewing on 88 episodes of CBS\u2019 primetime soap Knots Landing from 1987 to 1993. They also shared roles on Critters 3 (1991) and Eerie, Indiana (1991) and appeared as separate characters on a 1988 episode of Highway to Heaven, a 1989 TV movie called Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer, Empty Nest (1992) and the film Twin Sitters (1995), their final credit.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe young cast of \u2018Kindergarten Cop\u2019 with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a 1990 publicity photo<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tChristian appeared in the 1993 TV movie A Waltons Thanksgiving Reunion as Clay Jones, a son of Judy Norton\u2019s Mary-Ellen Walton character.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a 2020 Kindergarten Cop reunion Zoom hosted by Yahoo Entertainment and featuring the Cousins brothers as well as a surprise appearance by Schwarzenegger, Christian said that, as an adult and having retired from acting, he went into the furniture business as an executive, and also co-owned a CBD business.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of his death was first reported by the New York Post.<\/p>\n

\n\tCousins is survived by brother Joseph Cousins and half-brother Roeser. Complete survivor information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Cousins, the former child actor who, along with his twin brother Joseph, starred in the 1990 film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,330218,75,330219,330220,18321,2385],"class_list":["post-969416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-christian-cousins","tag-entertainment","tag-kindergarten-cop","tag-knots-landing","tag-novid","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}