{"id":39313,"date":"2025-07-22T00:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/malcolm-jamal-warner-the-cosby-show-star-dies-at-54-in-accidental-drowning-in-costa-rica\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:18:01","slug":"malcolm-jamal-warner-the-cosby-show-star-dies-at-54-in-accidental-drowning-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/malcolm-jamal-warner-the-cosby-show-star-dies-at-54-in-accidental-drowning-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm-Jamal Warner, &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221; star, dies at 54 in accidental drowning in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Actor and director Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role on &#8220;The Cosby Show,&#8221; has died in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, officials there said. He was 54.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner drowned Sunday afternoon at a beach in Cocles de Lim\u00f3n on Costa Rica&#8217;s Caribbean coast, the country&#8217;s Judicial Investigation Department said. He appeared to be pulled out to sea by a current.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner was assisted by people who were at the beach, but he was declared dead by the staff of the Costa Rican Red Cross, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner starred as Theo Huxtable on &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221; from 1984 to 1992. His performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/bios\/malcolm-jamal-warner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earned him an Emmy nomination<\/a> for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series in 1986.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/21\/3213035c-01c8-476b-b438-3ce20577eb6f\/thumbnail\/620x456g2\/236587a3e80dd82c3eecde6e0d57acfa\/gettyimages-138411794.jpg#\" alt=\"\" the=\"\" cosby=\"\" show=\"\" kids=\"\" height=\"456\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/21\/3213035c-01c8-476b-b438-3ce20577eb6f\/thumbnail\/620x456g2\/236587a3e80dd82c3eecde6e0d57acfa\/gettyimages-138411794.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/21\/3213035c-01c8-476b-b438-3ce20577eb6f\/thumbnail\/1240x912g2\/6567a5cc1b6e895583fc4d37f17a82f3\/gettyimages-138411794.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theodore &#8220;Theo&#8221; Huxtable on &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221; in the 1980s, with co-stars Tempestt Bledsoe, left, and Keshia Knight Pulliam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2023, Warner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/video\/malcolm-jamal-warner-headlines-poetry-unplugged-at-august-wilson-center\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">told CBS Pittsburgh<\/a> that being part of &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221; was an &#8220;awesome&#8221; experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That show had such an impact on the culture here in America but also a global impact on how Black people saw ourselves globally and how the rest of the world saw us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m proud to have been part of that legacy and it&#8217;s been a great ride ever since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Warner said in a 2015 interview with The Associated Press that he was saddened that the show&#8217;s legacy was &#8220;tarnished&#8221; by &#8220;Cosby Show&#8221; patriarch Bill Cosby, who was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-cosby-rape-allegations-timeline-hannibal-buress-joan-tarshis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">accused<\/a><\/span> of sexual assault by multiple women. Cosby&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-cosby-convicted-guilty-verdict-pennsylvania-today-2018-04-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">conviction<\/a><\/span> in a Pennsylvania case\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-cosby-released-prison-sexual-assault-conviction-overturned-pennsylvania-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was later overturned<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Warner went on to star in other TV shows, including &#8220;Malcolm &amp; Eddie&#8221; (1996-2000), &#8220;Reed Between the Lines&#8221; (2011-2015) and &#8220;The Resident&#8221; (2018-2023). He also voiced The Producer on &#8220;The Magic School Bus&#8221; (1994-1997). He made his feature film debut in &#8220;Drop Zone&#8221; in 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner also directed episodes of several TV shows, including &#8220;The Cosby Show,&#8221; &#8220;All That,&#8221; &#8220;Keenan &amp; Kel&#8221; and &#8220;The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcolmjamalwarner.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his biography on his website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, he appeared in a few episodes of &#8220;Alert: Missing Persons Unit&#8221; and was hosting the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/notallhood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Not All Hood,&#8221;<\/a> looking at the different experiences of Black Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner was also a poet and a musician. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/artists\/malcolm-jamal-warner\/18767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">won a Grammy<\/a> for best traditional R&amp;B performance in 2015 for his part in a cover of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;Jesus Children of America.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/21\/5f78b9e6-9927-4c33-9e92-528a03087173\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/7022fd180fd6027546b7c7ba2548ba6c\/gettyimages-1711593542.jpg#\" alt=\"Malcolm-Jamal Warner \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/21\/5f78b9e6-9927-4c33-9e92-528a03087173\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/7022fd180fd6027546b7c7ba2548ba6c\/gettyimages-1711593542.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/21\/5f78b9e6-9927-4c33-9e92-528a03087173\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/2f02d9d1ce0159ba9edddfaa4a5c737a\/gettyimages-1711593542.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Malcolm-Jamal Warner in 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Derek White \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fellow poet and author Kevin Powell, who was a friend of Warner&#8217;s, described him as a devoted husband and father who was humble, kind and supportive of other people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would have never known he was a major child star,&#8221; Powell said in an interview Monday with CBS News. &#8220;He was never someone who was into the celebrity of it. He knew what he was. He knew, you know, that he was America&#8217;s son. He literally was America&#8217;s son as the only male child on that historic show, &#8216;The Cosby Show.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Powell said he was struck by the emotional reactions from fans on social media. &#8220;It&#8217;s someone you came of age with,&#8221; he said of Warner.<\/p>\n<p>Powell recalled publishing a poem Warner wrote in a special issue of the magazine &#8220;African Voices&#8221; for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warner was a lifelong hip-hop fan, Powell said, but he also was &#8220;concerned about a lot of the images that were being put out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that became kind of his thing in the last few years, like how are we representing ourselves as a community, as a people, with the art that we&#8217;re creating?&#8221; he said. &#8220;That sticks with me because he was someone who understood he had a huge platform. He had a famous name and people would pay attention if he said certain things. &#8230; That&#8217;s who Malcolm-Jamal was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news of Warner&#8217;s death was &#8220;devastating,&#8221; a spokesperson for Bill Cosby said. The spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, said Cosby compared it to learning of the death of his son Ennis, who was shot and killed in a robbery in 1997. &#8220;It felt the same way,&#8221; Wyatt said.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/nicole-chau\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Nicole  Brown Chau<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Nicole Brown Chau is a deputy managing editor for CBSNews.com. 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