Kindergarten Cop Child Star Christian Cousins Dies at 43
Christian Cousins, the former child actor who played Dominic in the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop, has died at 43 of liver disease, his brother Jonas Roeser announced on Instagram.
Newsnibs Staff
- 2026-11-13
- Updated 4:30 PM UTC
Christian Cousins, a former child actor best known for playing Dominic in the 1990 film "Kindergarten Cop", has died at 43. The cause was liver disease. His brother, Jonas Roeser, announced the death in a post on Instagram, saying Cousins died "last month", which places it in October.
Cousins starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Kindergarten Cop", in which he played one of the children in the classroom at the center of the story. Before that film he appeared on television in "Knots Landing".
Roeser is related to Cousins through Cousins' biological father. In his tribute he remembered Cousins for his "passion and energy" and for "big stories and even bigger dreams."
Roeser closed the post by saying Cousins is now "in heaven with his mother, free from the pain he was carrying."
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