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   Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica   
   drowning   
      
   By  JAVIER CORDOBA and ANDREW DALTON   
   Updated 2:31 PM EDT, July 21, 2025   
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   SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played   
   teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died at age 54 in an   
   accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said.   
      
   Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said Monday that Warner   
   drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. He   
   was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him   
   deeper into the ocean.   
      
   “He was rescued by people on the beach,” the department’s initial report   
   said, but first responders from Costa Rica’s Red Cross found him without   
   vital signs and he was taken to the morgue.   
      
   Warner created many TV moments etched in the memories of Generation X   
   children and their parents, including a pilot-episode argument with Bill   
   Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable about money and an ear piercing he tries to hide   
   from his dad. His Theo was the only son among four daughters in the   
   household of Cliff Huxtable and Phylicia Rashad’s Clair Huxtable on the   
   NBC sitcom, and he would be one of the prime representations of American   
   teenage boyhood on a show that was the most popular in America for much of   
   its run from 1984 to 1992.   
      
   He played the role for eight seasons in all 197 episodes, winning an Emmy   
   nomination for supporting actor in a comedy in 1986. For many the lasting   
   image of the character, and of Warner, is of him wearing a badly botched   
   mock designer shirt sewed by his sister Denise, played by Lisa Bonet.   
      
   Warner later appeared on the sitcom “Malcolm & Eddie,” co-starring with   
   comedian Eddie Griffin in the series on the defunct UPN network from 1996   
   to 2000. And in the 2010s he starred opposite Tracee Ellis Ross as a   
   family-blending couple for two seasons on the BET sitcom “Read Between The   
   Lines.” He also had a role as O.J. Simpson’s friend Al Cowlings on   
   “American Crime Story” and was a series regular on Fox’s “The   
   Resident.”   
      
      
   His film roles include the 2008 rom-com “Fool’s Gold” with Matthew   
   McConaughey and Kate Hudson. A poet and a musician, Warner was a Grammy   
   winner, for best traditional R&B performance, and was nominated for best   
   spoken word poetry album for “Hiding in Plain View.”   
      
   Warner was married with a daughter, but chose to not publicly disclose   
   their names. Warner’s representatives declined immediate comment.   
      
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