54 year old Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor and artist who rose to fame as a child as Theodore Huxtable on The Cosby Show,” has died, according to a source close to the actor.
According to the source, Warner died in a drowning accident in Costa Rica, where he was on vacation with his family.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Warner for further information.
A native of New Jersey, Warner started acting at the age of 9, making appearances in shows like Fame, he was a young teen when he was cast as the only son of Bill Cosby’s character, Heathcliff Huxtable, in the Cosby Show which ran from 1984 to 1992.
Warner says the fact that the Cosby Show for Black America and White America alike finally legitimized the Black middle class, which has always been around since the inception of this country but, as with everything, is not legitimate til it’s on television.
When the show first came out, there were White people and Black people talking about the Huxtables don’t really exist, Black people don’t really live like that but eanwhile, we were getting tens of thousands of fan letters from people saying, thank you so much for this show.
Warner was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1986 for his supporting work on “The Cosby Show.”
By the time the show was over, Warner said in a 2013 interview, they were still on top enough to go out on top, but we were ready to live our own lives.
Source:CNN Entertainment
