Kindergarten Cop actor Christian Cousins dies at 43

Christian Cousins, who shared the role of Dominic with his twin brother Joseph in the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop, has died at 43. His half-brother Jonas Roeser announced the death on Instagram and said Cousins had been seriously ill with liver disease.

Roeser’s post said he did not get to know Christian and Joseph until he was in college. The twins grew up in California while Roeser grew up in Washington, he wrote, adding that he had watched their performances on television before they met.

Roeser remembered Christian as “a character, full of passion and energy, with big stories and even bigger dreams.” He also wrote that he found comfort in believing his brother was now with their mother and free from pain. The reports do not establish a precise date of death or provide further medical details.

Christian and Joseph shared Dominic’s role in Kindergarten Cop, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger played an undercover police detective posing as a kindergarten teacher. In a 2020 reunion conversation, Christian explained that using twins helped the production work within limits on the hours children could work. He said the character’s screen time would otherwise have made filming take much...