The little boy from A Cop in Kindergarten died at 43
Christian Cousins, who played little Dominic opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the cult 1990 film, died at the age of 43 following liver disease.
He had given the answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger in A cop in kindergarten in 1990 at the cinema: Christian Cousins, who played young Dominic in Ivan Reitman’s cult comedy, died at the age of 43. The actor died of liver disease, his half-brother Jonas Roeser announced in a post on Instagram late last month.
“He was full of character, passion and energy, with big stories to tell and even bigger dreams,” Roeser wrote in his tribute. “It comforts me to believe that he is now in heaven with his mother, free from the pain he was enduring. Rest in peace, Christian. I hope your soul has found rest and peace. You are my brother and we will miss you.”
Jonas Roeser clarified that he was the biological brother of Christian and his twin Joey Cousins, all three having the same father.
Both actors grew up in California, while Roeser lived in Washington state. He only met them at university, but remembers discovering them on television in West Coast and in the role of Dominic, alongside Schwarzenegger. “However, these roles only represent a small part of what I will have left of Christian“, he wrote.
Christian Cousins made his screen debut in 1988 in an episode of the series Roads to Paradise. He then landed the role of Bobby Gibson Ewing in West Coastthe series derived from Dallas, which he performed between 1987 and 1992. But it is above all his appearance in A cop in kindergartenwhere he shared the role of Dominic with his twin brother Joey, who had made him known to the general public. Their last joint role in the cinema was in Twin Sittersin 1995.
In 2020, the two brothers found part of the teamA cop in kindergarten for an interview with Yahoo Entertainment. Christian Cousins recounted the circumstances of their recruitment: the production quickly understood that it would probably need two children to keep up with the pace of filming, particularly due to the constraints linked to the work of young actors. “We were engaged from the first interview“, he remembered.
