SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who performed teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Present,” has died at age 54 in an unintended drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there stated.
Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Division stated Monday that Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a seashore on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. He was swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province when a present pulled him deeper into the ocean.
“He was rescued by individuals on the seashore,” the division’s preliminary report stated, however first responders from Costa Rica’s Purple Cross discovered him with out important indicators and he was taken to the morgue.
Although he compiled a protracted and different appearing resume, Warner remained best-known for his first massive position, because the solely son of Invoice Cosby’s character Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Present.” Warner was solely an adolescent when he was first solid within the present, and Cosby picked him personally.
“My largest concern is in the case of photos of individuals of coloration on tv and movie, it doesn’t matter what … destructive stereotypes of individuals of coloration, we’ve all the time had ‘The Cosby Present’ to carry up towards that,” Warner stated in a 2015 interview, after the present’s largest star was accused of rape and sexual assault by a number of ladies. “And the truth that we now not have that, that’s the factor that saddens me.”
As an grownup, Warner starred on “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Individuals v. O.J. Simpson,” amongst a number of different reveals and films.
Most lately, Warner began a podcast referred to as “Not All Hood” with Weusi Baraka and Candace Kelley concerning the numerous identities and perceptions of Black individuals all through the U.S.
Contributing: Related Press, Joseph Wilkinson of New York Each day Information
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