Christian Cousins Dies: Former Child Actor Of ‘Kindergarten Cop’, ‘Knots Landing’ Was 43

Christian Cousins, the former child actor who, along with his twin brother Joseph, starred in the 1990 film Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Kindergarten Cop, died last month following a battle with liver disease. He was 43.

His death was announced by his half-brother, Jonas Roeser, on Instagram.

“It’s hard to share 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 didn’t get to know them until I was in college. Before that, I grew up watching them on television in Knots Landing and the lead role of Dominic in Kindergarten Cop with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“But those roles are only a small part of how I’ll remember Christian,” Roeser continued. “He was a character, full of passion and energy, with big stories and even bigger dreams. Christian had been very sick with liver disease. It brings me comfort to believe he is now in heaven with his mother, free from the pain he was carrying. Rest easy, Christian. I hope your soul is at rest and that you’ve found peace. You are my brother and you will be missed.”

In addition to their Kindergarten Cop role, Christian and twin brother Joseph, who were born March 17, 1983, in Orange County, California, shared the roles of Bobby Gibson Ewing on 88 episodes of CBS’ primetime soap Knots Landing from 1987 to 1993. They also shared roles on Critters 3 (1991) and Eerie, Indiana (1991) and appeared as separate characters on a 1988 episode of Highway to Heaven, a 1989 TV movie called Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer, Empty Nest (1992) and the film Twin Sitters (1995), their final credit.

Christian appeared in the 1993 TV movie A Waltons Thanksgiving Reunion as Clay Jones, a son of Judy Norton’s Mary-Ellen Walton character.

In a 2020 Kindergarten Cop reunion zoom hosted by Yahoo Entertainment and featuring the Cousins brothers as well as a surprise appearance by Schwarzenegger, Christian said that, as an adult and having retired from acting, he went into the furniture business as an executive, and also co-owned a CBD business.

News of his death was first reported by the New York Post.

Cousins is survived by brother Joseph Cousins and half-brother Roeser. Complete survivor information was not immediately available.