Former 'Kindergarten Cop' child actor Christian Cousins dies at 43

Christian Cousins, known for sharing the role of Bobby Gibson Ewing with his twin brother Joseph in the 1990 film "Kindergarten Cop" and the series "Knots Landing," died at age 43 following a battle with liver disease, according to a family announcement on Instagram. His half-brother Jonas Roeser posted the news on October 22, noting that Cousins had been ill for some time.

Cousins and his twin, born March 17, 1983, in Orange County, California, also appeared together in "Critters 3" (1991) and "Eerie, Indiana" (1991), and separately in episodes of "Highway to Heaven," the TV movie "Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer," "Empty Nest," and the film "Twin Sitters" (1995). Cousins' final credit was the 1995 movie.

After retiring from acting, Cousins worked as an executive in the furniture industry and co-owned a CBD business, as he told Yahoo Entertainment during a 2020 "Kindergarten Cop" reunion Zoom event.

He is survived by his twin brother Joseph Cousins and half-brother Jonas Roeser. Details about other survivors were not immediately released.