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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show quality Theo, has drowned successful Costa Rica, according to authorities.
The country's Judicial Investigation Department said the 54-year-old histrion drowned connected Sunday day disconnected a formation connected the Caribbean coast.
It is understood helium was swimming astatine Playa Grande de Cocles successful Limon state erstwhile helium was pulled underwater by a current.
"He was rescued by radical connected the beach," according to the department's aboriginal report, but exigency workers from Costa Rica's Red Cross recovered him without immoderate signs of beingness and helium was taken to the morgue.
Warner was connected vacation with his household astatine the time, according to US personage quality tract People.
The Cosby Show aired from 1984 to 1992 connected NBC successful the US and is regarded arsenic a groundbreaking amusement for its portrayal of a palmy achromatic middle-class family. It was besides shown connected Channel 4 successful the UK astatine astir the aforesaid time.
Its star, Bill Cosby, played a doc named Cliff Huxtable, with Warner successful the relation of Theo, his lone son.
The NBC sitcom was the astir fashionable amusement successful America for overmuch of its tally betwixt 1984 and 1992.
Warner played the relation for 8 seasons successful each 197 episodes, winning an Emmy information for supporting histrion successful a drama successful 1986.
For many, the lasting representation of the character, and of Warner, is of him wearing a badly-botched mock decorator garment sewn by his sister Denise, played by Lisa Bonet.
Warner 'proud' of amusement contempt Cosby claims
The bequest of The Cosby Show has been tarnished aft Cosby was jailed successful 2018 pursuing a condemnation for intersexual assault.
He was released successful 2021 aft his condemnation was overturned.
Dozens of women had accused Cosby of intersexual battle oregon rape earlier the trial.
Following his merchandise from prison, Cosby was found liable for sexually assaulting a woman astatine the Playboy Mansion successful 1975 erstwhile she was a teenager.
Warner told the Associated Press successful 2015: "My biggest interest is erstwhile it comes to images of radical of colour connected tv and film... We've ever had 'The Cosby Show' to clasp up against that. And the information that we nary longer person that, that's the happening that saddens maine the astir due to the fact that successful a fewer generations the Huxtables volition person been conscionable a fairy tale."
In 2023, Warner told People successful an interview: "I cognize I tin talk for each the formed erstwhile I accidental The Cosby Show is thing that we are each inactive precise arrogant of."
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Following his vocation connected The Cosby Show, Warner aboriginal appeared connected the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie, co-starring with comedian Eddie Griffin successful the bid connected the UPN web from 1996 to 2000.
In the 2010s helium starred other Tracee Ellis Ross arsenic a family-blending mates for 2 seasons connected the BET sitcom Read Between The Lines.
He besides had a relation arsenic OJ Simpson's person Al Cowlings successful American Crime Story and was a bid regular connected Fox's The Resident.
Films helium has appeared successful see the 2008 rom-com Fool's Gold with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.
A writer and a musician, Warner won a Grammy for champion accepted R&B show for the opus Jesus Children with Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway. He was besides nominated for champion spoken connection poesy medium for Hiding In Plain View.
Warner was joined with a daughter, but chose to not publically disclose their names.
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