Beloved TV star Malcolm-Jamal Warner – best known for playing Theo Huxtable for all eight seasons of The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992 – accidentally drowned at age 54 during a family vacation in Costa Rica, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Local officials confirmed Warner got caught in a high current while swimming off the coast of the Central American nation near Playa Cocles, a beach in the province of Limon, and died due to asphyxia, according to an ABC News report.

The sitcom star's body was formally identified by Costa Rica's national police. Article continues below advertisement

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Warner played the only son of now scandal-scarred Bill Cosby

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