The Cosby Show alumna Keisha Knight Pulliam has paid a heartfelt tribute to her former The Cosby Show co-star Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
In an Instagram post Sunday, Knight Pulliam wrote
“A week ago I lost my big brother, but I gained an angel…I love you… I miss you… We got our girls, ❤️” (a reference to Warner’s wife and daughter).
She wrote her caption alongside a clip of the Emmy-nominated and Grammy-winning Warner playing bass guitar onstage in front of a crowd at the City Winery in Atlanta.
Pulliam and Warner played siblings Theo and Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show throughout the show’s run from 1984 to 1992.
Warner died July 20 in a drowning accident while on vacation with his family in Costa Rica. He was 54.
In addition to The Cosby Show, his prolific acting career included series regular roles on The Resident and Malcolm & Eddie, along with dozens of other acting and directing credits. He also starred with Luke Perry in the Showtime drama series Jeremiah, which took place in a postapocalyptic world decimated by a virus, and had a series leading role opposite Seinfeld alum Jason Alexander in Listen Up.
Along with his screen career, Warner also was a recording artist, winning a 2015 Best Traditional R&B Performance Grammy for “Jesus Children,” along with Robert Glasper Experiment featuring Lalah Hathaway, and earning a Best Spoken Word Poetry Album Grammy nom in 2023 for Hiding in Plain View. He and Candace O. Kelley co-hosted with Not All Hood (NAH), a podcast focused on the lives and experiences of Black people in America.
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
