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    Home - USA News - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show’s Theo, drowns in Costa Rica

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show’s Theo, drowns in Costa Rica

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show’s Theo, drowns in Costa Rica

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show’s Theo, drowns in Costa Rica

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    • July 21, 2025
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    Cliff Notes

    • Malcolm-Jamal Warner, known for his role as Theo on The Cosby Show, tragically drowned in Costa Rica while swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles.
    • The 54-year-old actor was on holiday with his family when he was pulled underwater by a current and later found unresponsive by emergency workers.
    • Despite the tarnished legacy of The Cosby Show due to Bill Cosby’s legal issues, Warner expressed pride in the show’s impact on American television.

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show’s Theo, drowns in Costa Rica

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show character Theo, has drowned in Costa Rica, according to authorities.

    The Judicial Investigation Department in Costa Rica said the 54-year-old actor drowned on Sunday afternoon off a beach on the country’s Caribbean coast.

    It is understood he was swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province when he was pulled underwater by a current.

    “He was rescued by people on the beach,” according to the department’s early report, but emergency workers from Costa Rica’s Red Cross found him without any signs of life and he was taken to the morgue.

    Warner was on holiday with his family at the time, according to US celebrity news site People.

    The Cosby Show aired from 1984 to 1992 on NBC in the US and is regarded as a groundbreaking show for its portrayal of a successful black middle-class family. It was also shown on Channel 4 in the UK at around the same time.

    Its star, Bill Cosby, played a doctor named Cliff Huxtable, with Warner in the role of Theo, his only son on the NBC sitcom.

    Winning an Emmy nomination

    The sitcom was the most popular show in America for much of its run between 1984 and 1992.

    Warner played the role for eight seasons in all 197 episodes, winning an Emmy nomination for supporting actor in a comedy in 1986.

    Warner ‘proud’ of show despite Cosby claims

    The legacy of The Cosby Show has been tarnished after Cosby was jailed in 2018 following a conviction for sexual assault.

    He was released in 2021 after his conviction was overturned.

    Dozens of women had accused Cosby of sexual assault or rape before the trial and following his release from prison the star, once known as “America’s Dad”, was found liable for sexually assaulting a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager.

    In 2023, Warner told People in an interview: “I know I can speak for all the cast when I say The Cosby Show is something that we are all still very proud of.”

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