Christian Cousins, the former child actor who, with his twin brother Joseph, starred in the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film. Kindergarten Copdied last month following a battle with liver disease. He was 43 years old.
His death was announced by his half-brother, Jonas Roeser, on Instagram.
“It is difficult to announce that my brother, Christian Cousins, has passed away,” Roeser wrote on October 22. “Christian and his twin brother, Joseph ‘Joey’ Cousins, are my brothers through my biological father. They grew up in California while I was in Washington and I only knew them in college. Before that, I grew up watching them on TV in Landing nodes and the lead role of Dominic in Kindergarten Cop with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“But these roles are only a small part of how I will remember Christian,” Roeser continued. “He was a character full of passion and energy, with big stories and even bigger dreams. Christian was very ill with liver disease. It comforts me to believe that he is now in heaven with his mother, free from the pain he carried. Rest assured, Christian. I hope your soul is at rest and that you have found peace. You are my brother and we will miss you.”
In addition to their Kindergarten Cop role, Christian and his twin brother Joseph, born March 17, 1983, in Orange County, California, shared the roles of Bobby Gibson Ewing in 88 episodes of the CBS prime-time soap opera. Landing nodes from 1987 to 1993. They also shared roles on Creatures 3 (1991) and Strange, Indiana (1991) and appeared as separate characters in a 1988 episode of The highway to paradisea 1989 TV movie titled Roxanne: The Pulitzer Prize, Empty nest (1992) and the film Twin Guardians (1995), their final credit.
The young cast of “Kindergarten Cop” with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a 1990 publicity photo
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Christian appeared in the 1993 TV movie A Thanksgiving Gathering at Waltons as Clay Jones, a son of Judy Norton’s Mary-Ellen Walton character.
In a 2020 Kindergarten Cop Zoom meeting hosted by Yahoo Entertainment and featuring the Cousins brothers as well as a surprise appearance from Schwarzenegger, Christian said that as an adult and after retiring from acting, he went into the furniture business as an executive and also co-owned a CBD company.
News of his death was first announced by the New York Post.
Cousins is survived by his brother Joseph Cousins and his half-brother Roeser. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
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