Malcolm-Jamal Warner, star of the Cosby show, died at 54 years old

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor, best known for his role as Theo Huxtable in the Cosby show, has died.

Warner, who was 54, drowned on Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica.

The Costa Rica Judicial Investigations Agency confirmed the death in a news message.

Warner seems to have been extracted at the sea from a fast ocean while swimming in Playa Grande around 14:00 local time in Kokls, a city in Lemon province, local authorities said.

Warner plays Bill Cosby’s son in the massively popular US 1984-1992 sitcom.

Authorities said observers were rescuing Warner and brought him to the shore, where Costa Rica’s Red Cross tried to treat him, but he was declared dead in place.

He survived his wife and daughter.

Warner was nominated for Emmy in the exclusive supporting actor in a comedy series for his work in the Cosby show in 1986.

He was selected because of his breakthrough role by Cosby on the last day of national audition.

“I was literally the last person they saw,” he recalled in an interview with 2023.

The Cosby show has qualified as a television show number one for five seasons from 1985 to 1990. It depicts a cozy middle -class family – a relatively rare depiction during the time of Black Americans on television.

“When the show first came out, the white people and black people who talked about (how) HUTTABLES do not really exist, black people don’t really live like that,” Warner said in an interview for 2013.

“In the meantime, we received tens of thousands of fan letters from the people who say,” Thank you very much for this show. “

After the show Cosby, Warner appeared in several other television programs, including Malcom & Eddie, along with comedian Eddie Griffin.

Griffin respects him on social media after his death, writes Rip King and My Big Little Brother.

He was attended by a guest of the fresh prince of Bell-Aar and Susam Street. Most recently, he played AJ Austin, a cardio-facial surgeon in the series for the medical drama “The Resident”.

Warner also won Grammy for the best traditional performance of R&B in 2015, along with Robert Glassper and Lala Hathaway for the cover of Stevie Wonder Jesus’ songs of America.

His album with a spoken word “Hide in ordinary view” won him another Grammy nomination in 2023.

Last year, he began a podcast – “Not the whole hood” – who discussed mental health in the black community.

Former co-star and fans publish their respects to him online.

The basketball star Magic Johnson, who appeared in a AIDS awareness video directed by Warner, wrote that he and his wife were “both fans of Cosby’s hit show and continue to follow their career” over the years.

“Every time I came across Malcolm, we would have deep and fun conversations about basketball, life and business. It will really be missed,” Johnson writes.

Tracy Alice Ross, who participated with Warner on Reed between the lines, also mourned him, wrote: “My heart is so sad. What an actor and friend was: warm, gentle, present, kind, thoughtful, delayed, elegant. You made the world a more light place.

“Sending so much love to your family. I am sorry for this unthinkable loss.”

Actress Niecy Nash has published that she has just talked to Warner.

“We talked about how happy we were in our marriages too. Damn a friend. You were a cornerstone on the Cosby show. We all loved Theo! We will never be forgotten. You will miss you. Rest easily.”

Georgia Senator Rafael Warnok also praised him, writing in a publication: “For me and so many of my generation Malcolm-Jamal Warner was part of our childhood, a brother whose character” Theo “felt like one of me.

“May God give peace to His soul, power and grace to His sorrowful family.”