{"id":26981,"date":"2025-07-21T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26981\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:01:09","slug":"malcolm-jamal-warner-dies-the-cosby-show-actor-was-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26981\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies: &#8216;The Cosby Show&#8217; actor was 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 54-year-old actor is best known for his role as Theo Huxtable, the only son of Cosby&#8217;s character, on &#8220;The Cosby Show.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, known for his role as Theo Huxtable in the &#8220;The Cosby Show,&#8221; has died, according to multiple media outlets. He was 54.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner died in an accidental drowning Sunday in Costa Rica, according to the Associated Press. TMZ first reported on the &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221; alum&#8217;s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Costa Rica\u2019s Judicial Investigation Department said Monday that Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica\u2019s Caribbean coast. He was swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was rescued by people on the beach,\u201d the department&#8217;s initial report said, but first responders from Costa Rica\u2019s Red Cross found him without vital signs and he was taken to the morgue.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old actor is best known for his role as Theo Huxtable, the only son of Cosby&#8217;s character, on &#8220;The Cosby Show.&#8221; Warner&#8217;s performance earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in a comedy in 1986.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following his time on &#8220;The Cosby Show,&#8221; Warner played Malcolm McGee on the 90s&#8217; sitcom &#8220;Malcolm &amp; Eddie.&#8221; The 54-year-old actor had credits in dozens of television shows over the years, including &#8220;Grown-ish,&#8221; &#8220;9-1-1&#8221; and &#8220;Alert: Missing Persons Unit.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the New Jersey native starred as AJ Austin on the medical drama &#8220;The Resident.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aside from acting, Warner was a Grammy-winning musician. He won an award for best traditional R&amp;B performance in 2015 and was nominated for a Grammy in 2023 for best spoken world poetry album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Warner launched a podcast alongside Weusi Baraka and Candance Kelly called &#8220;Not All Hood,&#8221; The podcast explored the diverse experiences of the Black community and representations in media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we talk about the Black community, we tend to speak of it as a monolith when the reality is there are so many different facets of the Black community, and we wanted to have a space where we can really explore, discuss, and acknowledge all of those different aspects,\u201d Warner said in an interview with People last year<\/p>\n<p>Warner is survived by his wife and daughter, according to People.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bb70c602-0140-4529-9450-74f05ab74132_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bb70c602-0140-4529-9450-74f05ab74132_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 54-year-old actor is best known for his role as Theo Huxtable, the only son of Cosby&#8217;s character,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-26981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}