The Cosby Show's Theo actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowns in Costa Rica

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

The Judicial Investigation Department successful Costa Rica said the 54-year-old histrion drowned connected Sunday day disconnected a formation connected the country's Caribbean coast.

It is understood helium was swimming astatine Playa Grande de Cocles successful Limon state erstwhile helium was pulled underwater by a current.

"He was rescued by radical connected the beach," according to the department's aboriginal report, but exigency workers from Costa Rica's Red Cross recovered him without immoderate signs of beingness and helium was taken to the morgue.

Warner was connected vacation with his household astatine the time, according to US personage quality tract People.

The Cosby Show aired from 1984 to 1992 connected NBC successful the US and is regarded arsenic a groundbreaking amusement for its portrayal of a palmy achromatic middle-class family. It was besides shown connected British television's Channel 4 astir the aforesaid time.

Its star, Bill Cosby, played a doc named Cliff Huxtable, with Warner successful the relation of Theo, his lone lad connected the NBC sitcom.

The sitcom was the astir fashionable amusement successful America for overmuch of its tally betwixt 1984 and 1992.

Warner played the relation for 8 seasons successful each 197 episodes, winning an Emmy information for supporting histrion successful a drama successful 1986.

For many, the lasting representation of the character, and of Warner, is of him wearing a severely botched mock decorator garment sewn by his sister Denise, played by Lisa Bonet.

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